ACS Citation Generator
& Citation Checker.

Use our free citation generator to create ACS, APA, MLA, and Chicago references instantly. Our AI-powered citation checker verifies and corrects your references, while the source finder locates original papers from any text snippet.

Cite, verify, find sources

Free citation generator and AI source finder

Citation Style
Source Type

Tip: Paste a URL, DOI, or ISBN for automatic metadata lookup.

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CiteGenie is an ACS citation generator built for chemistry, biology, and health sciences students who need accurate references without uploading data to the cloud. Our citation checker automatically detects formatting errors, missing authors, and incorrect DOIs across 10,000+ citation styles. Use the citation find source tool to trace any text snippet back to its original paper in seconds. Every result is citation verified against live academic databases — OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and arXiv — covering 250M+ scholarly works across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Searching 250M+ scholarly works across 5 academic databases — in parallel, on every query

ACS CITATION GENERATOR

ACS, APA & MLA Citation Generator

Our ACS citation generator and multi-style citation tool supports 8 formats across all source types. Paste a URL, DOI, or ISBN and get a fully formatted reference in seconds — ACS, APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, Harvard, and more.

APA 7 Reference
Smith, J. A., & Lee, K. (2023). Deep learning fundamentals. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1234/example
DOI verified In-text: (Smith & Lee, 2023)
Source Search
"Attention mechanisms allow models to focus on relevant parts of the input sequence…"
Attention Is All You Need
Vaswani et al. · NeurIPS 2017 · 99k citations
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning…
Bahdanau et al. · ICLR 2015
CITATION FIND SOURCE

Find the Source Behind Any Text

Our citation find source tool lets you paste any text snippet and instantly searches millions of academic papers to identify the original publication. Perfect for tracing quotes, locating paraphrased sources, and building accurate reference lists.

CITATION CHECKER & VERIFY

Citation Checker — Verify & Correct References

Paste any reference into our citation checker and CiteGenie will verify citation accuracy against academic databases, flag missing authors or page numbers, and reformat to the correct style. Catch errors before submission every time.

Citation Check
Vaswani, A. (2017). Attention is all you need. NeurIPS.
Missing co-authors (8 total)
Volume/page numbers absent
Year and title correct
Corrected APA 7:
Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.
Writing Review
The model was very unique and showed alot of promise for future applications in the field of computational linguistics.
grammar "very unique" → unique
clarity "the field of…" → computational linguistics
WRITING ASSISTANT

Improve Academic Writing Quality

Paste your draft text and CiteGenie highlights grammar errors and clarity issues inline. Accept or reject suggestions one by one — like a local Grammarly built for academic writing, with zero data leaving your machine.

READING ASSISTANT

Verify Every Cited Claim in a Paper

Upload a paper and CiteGenie extracts every cited claim automatically and checks each one against the source it cites. Spot misattributions, broken references, and unsupported claims at a glance — no highlighting, no flipping back to the bibliography. Includes an AI-generated paper summary with thesis and findings.

Document Summary
paper.pdf · 24 pages
Thesis Transformer self-attention outperforms RNNs on seq2seq tasks
Findings BLEU +2.0 on EN→DE, training 3× faster than LSTM baseline
BibTeX → APA 7
Input @article{smith2023, author = {Smith, J.}, …}
Output Smith, J. (2023). A study. Nature, 615, 123–130.
BULK CITATION CONVERTER

Convert an Entire Bibliography in One Click

Paste BibTeX, RIS, or plain-text references and reformat the whole list into APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, AMA, or ACS at once. No manual cleanup, no per-entry copy-paste — ideal when a journal asks for a different reference style.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about CiteGenie and our citation tools.

CiteGenie is a free AI-powered citation generator and citation checker. It supports ACS, APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and AMA formats — helping students and researchers generate accurate references.
Our ACS citation generator formats references according to the American Chemical Society style guide. Paste a DOI, URL, or source details, select ACS as your citation style, and CiteGenie generates a correctly formatted ACS reference with author initials, abbreviated journal title, volume, and page range. You can also use our citation verify feature to check an existing ACS reference for accuracy.
CiteGenie supports APA 7th edition, APA 6th edition, MLA 9, MLA 8, Chicago (Author-Date), Harvard, AMA, and ACS — covering the most common citation styles used across all academic disciplines.
The Citation Generator is completely free with no limits. AI-powered features (Citation Checker, Find Source, Writing Assistant) use credits — see pricing.
Yes. CiteGenie searches across every major academic database — Crossref, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, OpenAlex, and PubMed — so you get coverage of the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in a single query. We also support citation styles for all major disciplines: sciences (ACS, AMA), humanities (Chicago, MLA), and social sciences (APA, Harvard).