The Easiest Music Citation Generator
The simplest way to cite any song, album, or musical score for your research papers and projects. Get it right every time.
Cite any song from Spotify, YouTube, or more.
Supports APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
Search by artist or title to get started.
How It Works in 3 Simple Steps
Find Your Music
Search for a song, album, or artist. You can also paste a URL from a streaming service.
Verify the Details
Our tool automatically finds the artist, record label, and year. Review the information and make edits if needed.
Generate & Copy
Get your perfectly formatted citation. Copy it directly into your works cited or reference list.
The Ultimate Tool for Citing Music
Cite Any Kind of Audio
From streaming tracks to classical scores, we've got you covered.
Easily generate citations for Spotify songs, YouTube music videos, vinyl albums, and published musical scores.
Our database recognizes millions of songs and albums, making it easy to find your source in seconds.
Perfect Formatting in Any Style
Ensure your citations meet the requirements of your institution or publication.
Our generator correctly formats composers, performers, and record labels according to the latest APA 7, MLA 9, and Chicago 17th editions.
Trusted by students and researchers in musicology, media studies, and the humanities for flawless bibliographies.
Simple and Flexible for Your Workflow
Our tool is fast, requires no sign-up, and gives you full control.
Find your song and generate a citation in under 30 seconds without needing an account.
Easily edit any field to add a specific performer, timestamp, or other details to perfect your citation.
Frequently asked questions
Typically, you need the artist or composer, the song title, the album title, the record label, and the year of release. Our music citation generator can find most of this information for you automatically.
Simply paste the URL of the song from Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube into our tool. It will automatically retrieve the necessary details and format the citation correctly, including the URL.
Citing a song focuses on that individual track, while an album citation refers to the entire collection of work. Our tool allows you to specify whether you are citing a song or an album to ensure the format is correct.
Citing a musical score is similar to citing a book. You'll need the composer, the title of the work, the publisher, and the year of publication. Our tool has a specific template to handle scores.
This depends on your assignment guidelines. MLA is very common in the humanities, Chicago is often used for in-depth musicology, and APA is used in the social sciences. Our tool supports all three so you can match your requirements.