CiteDashConvert citations between APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver formats. Paste a citation, choose your target style, and get a reformatted reference instantly.
Best-effort style conversion
This free tool applies heuristic reformatting for common citation patterns. For accurate, field-level conversion across all source types, use CiteDash's full citation engine with automatic metadata parsing.
Copy a citation from your paper or bibliography and paste it into the source panel. Select the original citation style.
Select the style you want to convert to — APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, or Vancouver.
Click Convert to reformat your citation. Copy the result with one click and paste it into your paper.
Common questions about converting between citation styles
Paste your APA citation into the left panel, select 'APA 7th Edition' as the source style and 'MLA 9th Edition' as the target style, then click Convert. The tool will reformat key elements such as author names, punctuation, and ordering to match MLA conventions. For complex references with multiple authors, volumes, or special source types, CiteDash's full citation engine provides field-level conversion.
The free converter supports APA 7th Edition, MLA 9th Edition, Chicago 17th Edition, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver styles. These cover the most commonly used formats in humanities, social sciences, STEM, and medical research.
This free tool applies best-effort heuristic reformatting for common citation patterns. Because citations are unstructured text, fully accurate conversion requires parsing each field (author, title, journal, year, volume, pages, DOI) individually. CiteDash's full citation engine does exactly that — it parses your reference into structured data and reformats every field according to the target style's rules.
The free tool converts one citation at a time. If you need to convert an entire bibliography or reference list, CiteDash's citation manager can batch-convert all your references between styles with a single click, preserving all metadata fields.
APA (American Psychological Association) is common in social sciences and uses an author-date format, e.g., (Smith, 2024). MLA (Modern Language Association) is common in humanities and uses an author-page format, e.g., (Smith 42). They also differ in how author names are listed, how titles are capitalized, and how publication details are ordered in the reference list.
CiteDash parses every field of your references individually and reformats them precisely according to your target style. Convert entire bibliographies with one click. 50 free credits on signup.