APA 7 Citation Generator
Standard for the social sciences, education, and most U.S. college coursework. Paste a link, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID — get a APA citation in one click.
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Standard for the social sciences, education, and most U.S. college coursework.
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About APA 7 format
APA 7th edition (American Psychological Association) is the dominant style across psychology, education, nursing, business, and most undergraduate writing in the United States. It uses author-date in-text citations and a reference list ordered alphabetically by author surname.
When to use APA
APA is the standard in Psychology, education, social sciences, business, nursing. If your syllabus, professor, or target journal lists APA as the required style, this tool produces entries you can paste directly into your reference list with no further formatting needed.
How the APA 7 citation generator works
- Paste a source. A URL, DOI, ISBN, or arXiv ID — the tool detects the type and fetches title, author, year, and other metadata from Crossref, OpenLibrary, or arXiv.
- Edit any field. Auto-filled metadata can be wrong. Switch to manual entry to fix the author order, add a missing publisher, or correct a date.
- Copy your APA citation. Click Copy and paste it into Word, Google Docs, or LaTeX. The plain-text version preserves italics through Unicode-friendly formatting that pastes cleanly into any editor.
- Build a bibliography. Save multiple sources, and the tool assembles them — alphabetized for APA, which sorts alphabetically by author surname.