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APA citation generator.
APA 7 references, free.
Fill in what you know about your source and copy the citation, italics included. There are no ads and no account.
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What an APA 7 reference looks like
Book: Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Journal article: Watson, J. D., & Crick, F. H. C. (1953). Molecular structure of nucleic acids. Nature, 171(4356), 737-738. https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0
In APA 7, titles of works use sentence case and in-text citations use the author and year, like (Kahneman, 2011). Check the result against your source before you hand it in.
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Questions
Before you start.
How do I cite three or more authors in text?
Use the first author’s last name and “et al.”, like (Lee et al., 2020). The reference list still names up to 20 authors.
What goes in place of a missing date?
APA uses “n.d.” for no date, and this generator adds it for you.
What if my source has no author or no date?
Leave those fields empty. The title moves to the front. Look for an organization name first, since it can count as the author.
Will the italics paste into Word or Google Docs?
Copy citation is built to keep the italics. If your editor loses them, italicize the title by hand.
Is anything I type saved?
No. The citation is built in your browser and what you type isn’t stored.
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