Chicago vs Harvard

• In-text citation: Chicago — a footnote: ¹ Björn Rasch and Jan Born, … 685.; Harvard — (Rasch and Born, 2013).
• Reference list title: Chicago — Bibliography; Harvard — Reference List.
• Ordering: Chicago alphabetizes by author; Harvard alphabetizes by author.
• Chicago traits: First author inverted, additional authors in natural order; Titles use Title Case; articles in quotes, containers in italics.
• Harvard traits: All authors inverted with initials, joined by 'and' (no ampersand); Article titles take 'single quotation marks'; containers are italicized.

Identical facts, different arrangement — note the author names, casing, and where the date sits. Already have a citation in one style? Convert it to the other in one click.

Chicago: Chicago's notes-bibliography system cites with footnotes: a superscript number in the text pointing to a note with the source details and page. The bibliography entry shown here contains everything the footnote needs — un-invert the author's name and swap most periods for commas to form the note.

Harvard: Harvard cites in the text with author and year, comma included: (Alvarez, 2024), adding a page for quotes: (Alvarez, 2024, p. 12). Three or more authors use et al.: (Harris et al., 2020). Named in your sentence, only the year is parenthesized: Alvarez (2024) argues…

Whatever your assignment, department, or journal requires — that overrules everything. When the choice is genuinely yours: pick Chicago if your work sits in history, art history, and publishing, and Harvard for UK, Australian, and international universities across disciplines. Structurally, choose Chicago when uninterrupted prose — discussion happens in the notes matters more to your readers, and Harvard when author–date clarity with institution-specific variants does.

Then be perfectly consistent — a clean paper in either style beats a hybrid of both, and mixed styles are the first thing graders notice. Since the generator renders both styles from one paste, switching late costs nothing.