Reference Style Converter
Paste your reference list and convert it between APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver and IEEE. Switch your citations to match your target journal in seconds.
- Paste your reference list (one reference per line).
- Pick the target style your journal requires.
- Click convert, then copy the reformatted list.
Free reference style converter for researchers
A reference style converter reformats your citations from one referencing style to another. Every journal has its own required style, so when you move a manuscript from one journal to the next you often have to convert your whole reference list — from APA to Vancouver, or Harvard to IEEE, and so on. Doing this by hand is slow and easy to get wrong.
How the reference converter works
Paste your existing reference list, choose the target style your journal requires, and the tool reformats each reference for you. When a reference includes a DOI, the tool looks it up in CrossRef and rebuilds the citation from verified publisher data, so the output is accurate. References without a DOI are reformatted from the text you provide.
Supported citation styles
- APA and Harvard — common in the sciences and social sciences.
- MLA — common in the humanities.
- Vancouver and IEEE — common in medicine and engineering.
- Chicago — used across many fields.
Always check a few converted references against your target journal's author guidelines before you submit, as some journals use small in-house variations of the standard styles.