Cite Them Right Generator

This generator uses Cite Them Right 13th edition by Pears and Shields (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) as the locked default. The banner states that edition on every session. Cite Them Right Online moved to 13th-edition guidance on 31 July 2025. A 12th-edition compatibility toggle exists for older lists. Prefer 13th edition when the library guide has updated.

There is no Harvard variant switcher here because the page’s job is to lock Cite Them Right punctuation. University dialects belong on Anglia Ruskin, UWE, Leeds, OU and UK matcher pages. Mixing dialects on a CTR page recreates the ambiguity students already face. Related links send users to those tools. Keep one edition per document.

Changes between 12th and 13th editions are listed in the compatibility toggle rather than memorised in marketing copy. Students on older reading lists should enable that view and follow the module brief. When the brief is silent, prefer 13th edition. Confirm rare source types in CTR Online or the print handbook. Do not mix both editions in one list.

Yes, the Pears and Shields book is the specimen for book punctuation on this page: 13th edn, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Journal demonstrations still use Chernin (1988) with a real DOI. Those examples are checkable. Replace details with your sources after learning the pattern. Keep italics on book and journal titles.

Yes, AI-generated images can be cited under Cite Them Right 13th edition guidance reflected on related image tooling and this edition lock. Do not invent a human photographer. Record the generative tool as the medium guidance requires. Cross-check the handbook entry for the exact wording. Honesty about generative media is part of the assessment.

Undergraduate essays often carry 15–40 references and dissertations 80–250, per the Harvard hub. Both scales fail when 12th and 13th punctuation mix. Lock the edition early. Use batch list tools after single items are correct. CTR lock is about consistency, not about inventing new statistics.

No, this page does not replace university Harvard guides when a handbook names Anglia Ruskin, UWE, Leeds or OU Harvard. Open those cluster pages for difference panels. Use Cite Them Right Generator when the guide names CTR itself. Librarians’ PDFs remain authoritative for local quirks. Follow the assessment brief’s named guide.

No, sign-up is not required for core Cite Them Right formatting, copy and Word export on this page. That matches the free, no sign-up promise in the meta description. Reference managers still suit multi-year PhD libraries better. Use this page for deadline CTR references. Export before closing the tab if you need a durable file.

Yes, Cite Them Right Generator is free for core generate, edit, copy and Word export on this page. No account wall blocks the first reference. Session storage, where offered, stays in the browser for this visit. Reference managers still suit multi-year libraries better. Use this page when Cite Them Right 13th edition locked specification must be formatted under a coursework deadline.

Cite Them Right Generator follows Cite Them Right 13th edition when that preset is selected, matching Pears and Shields (2025). Other named university presets may change initials, year brackets or connector words. Always pick the guide named in the module handbook. The preview rewrites punctuation when the preset changes. Confirm the specimen against the library PDF of the local guide if one is linked.

Cite Them Right Generator returns a draft in under three seconds for a resolved identifier, plus about 20 seconds to verify fields against the source. Manual Harvard referencing commonly costs 90–180 seconds per item once punctuation is checked. At undergraduate loads of 15–40 sources the saving compounds quickly. Dissertation loads of 80–250 sources still need careful deduplication. The tool never removes the need to read the source itself.

No, Cite Them Right Generator does not invent missing metadata. Empty author, date or title fields stay empty or follow the guide’s substitution rules, such as organisation-as-author or no-date markers. Failed lookups open manual entry rather than fabricating a DOI or ISBN. That honesty prevents phantom sources in the reference list. Always compare the preview to the item in hand before export.

After finishing on Cite Them Right Generator, use the related-tools links for topically adjacent Harvard cluster pages on flat URLs. The parent Harvard Citation Generator hub lists all seventeen tools. Breadcrumbs return to the hub in one click. Sibling style hubs such as APA or MLA appear in the site footer only. Stay on Harvard cluster pages when the assignment names Harvard or Cite Them Right.

Yes, Cite Them Right Generator supports rich-text copy for Word plus BibTeX and RIS download for managers such as Zotero and Mendeley. Italics travel with rich-text paths when the browser allows. Plain-text paste may drop emphasis, so re-check titles after paste. Hanging indents are applied in Word if the document style requires them. Export only after the 20-second field check.