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Instantly format margins, spacing, headings, in-text references, and bibliographies. Formatly supports APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard standards.
Supported Style Standards
Built to Match Exact Style Manuals
Our styling engine doesn't guess. We compile and maintain precise rules for margins, font hierarchy, and citation formats.
APA 7th Edition
American Psychological Association
The gold standard for social sciences, psychology, nursing, business, and education.
What Formatly Automates:
- Automatically configures standard student or professional title pages
- Manages page numbering and the standard running head (shortened title)
- Formats headings (levels 1 through 5) with exact bold/italic alignments
- Standardizes in-text parenthetical citations: (Author, Year)
- Creates alphabetical references with precise hanging indents and italics
MLA 9th Edition
Modern Language Association
Widely used across literature, arts, philosophy, and cultural studies.
What Formatly Automates:
- Formats the left-aligned header (Student, Instructor, Course, Date)
- Applies top-right header pagination with student's last name
- Formats Works Cited reference lists with medium-neutral container style
- Handles author-page number parenthetical in-text citations without commas
- Automates double-spaced indentation of block quotes (half-inch indent)
Chicago / Turabian
Chicago Manual of Style (17th Ed.)
Preferred for history, art history, theology, literature, and fine arts.
What Formatly Automates:
- Supports both Notes-Bibliography (footnotes) and Author-Date formats
- Formats superscript footnote numbers in-text and maps them to footer notes
- Styles the separate Bibliography section with reverse hanging indents
- Applies Chicago title page standards (no header, page numbers start on page 2)
- Handles multi-author formatting rules (et al. and detailed note syntax)
Harvard Style
Author-Date Referencing System
Highly popular in business, economics, sociology, and international universities.
What Formatly Automates:
- Applies standard Harvard author-date citation rules within brackets
- Aligns the final reference list alphabetically by author surnames
- Formats italicization and capitalization of books and journal titles
- Translates multi-author structures into standard (et al.) syntax
- Maintains publisher-compliant double/single line spacing rules
Format Your Paper in 3 Steps
No complex manuals to learn. Upload your draft, pick your format, and we handle the rest.
Upload Your Draft
Select your research paper in DOCX, DOC, or PDF format. Our parser reads your text, headings, and current references safely.
Choose Citation Style
Select from APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard. Set optional preferences like custom fonts or specific line spacing.
Download Formatted Copy
In about 30 seconds, download your styled document. Edits are marked as Tracked Changes so you can inspect every revision.
Our rule-based engine structures and references files instantly.
Strict alignment with current APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard manuals.
Every edit is marked using MS Word tracked changes for easy review.
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