CSE Citation Generator

1. Select the source type. Choose Website, Book, Journal, Newspaper, or YouTube and enter the bibliographic details printed on or supplied by the source.
2. Generate the reference. Check the authors, title, publisher or journal, date, volume, issue, pages, DOI, and URL wherever those details apply.
3. Number by first appearance. This tool supports the CSE Citation–Sequence system: assign each source a number when it first appears and reuse that number for later citations of the same work.

The CSE Manual describes Citation–Sequence, Citation–Name, and Name–Year systems. This generator produces Citation–Sequence output only. References are numbered in order of first citation rather than alphabetized. The form currently supports websites, books, journal articles, newspaper articles, and YouTube videos entered manually; it does not perform an automatic DOI, ISBN, or title lookup.

• Journal articles: enter every displayed author, the article and journal titles, year, volume, issue, pages, and a DOI-based URL when available.
• Books: confirm the author, title, edition, publisher, and publication year.
• Online sources: preserve the responsible author or organization, title, publisher or site, publication or update date, access date when needed, and stable URL.

For the complete rules and additional source types, consult the official CSE Citation Quick Guide and the instructions for your course or publisher.

The example below uses illustrative bibliographic details shared with the AMA and ACS examples on this site. A real journal title should be abbreviated according to the abbreviation system required by your publisher.

• Repeated source: keep its original number instead of creating another reference-list entry.
• More than five authors: current ninth-edition quick guidance lists the first author followed by “et al.”; verify any journal-specific variation before submission.
• No author: begin with the title when no person or organization is identified.
• No publication date: an online reference may need “date unknown” plus an access date.
• Online journal article: prefer a DOI-based URL when one is available, but copy it from the source because the generator does not retrieve it.
• Other CSE systems: Citation–Name and Name–Year are outside this tool’s present output; use the system assigned by your instructor or publisher.

Review how to cite a journal article, a book, or a website. The guides to in-text citations and multiple authors can help with final checks. For another style, return to the main citation generator.