Cite It Right

For teachers

Make a class link for your research assignment, and print a ready-made lesson, worksheet, and reference card. It’s free, with no accounts and no student data collected.

1. Create a class link

Students open the link and get this assignment in their citation maker, with your rules and a checklist that updates as they work.

Citation style

Students can’t change this for the assignment.

Required kinds of sources (optional)

For example: at least 1 book and 1 journal article.

Not allowed (optional)
Edit a link you made before

Paste it here to load its settings. When you share the updated link, students who open it again keep their citations and get your new rules.

Ready for class, and they match what the citation maker produces.

Language of the printables

Instructions and explanations follow this choice. Citations stay in English either way, because that’s how students write them in their papers.

Mini-lesson plan

A 25-minute lesson on why and how to cite, with discussion questions and an exit ticket. Grades 6–12.

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Practice worksheet

“Citation Detective”: find the parts of a source, fix broken citations, decide what needs citing, and practice paraphrasing.

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Quick-reference card

MLA and APA on one page, so you can cut it in half, plus a Chicago page with footnotes. It covers the most common sources, in-text citations, and page rules.

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