Productivity
APA citations, formatted correctly
Give the source details and get APA 7th edition citations, in-text and reference list, formatted correctly.
What is APA Citation Generator?
APA Citation Generator is a free AI productivity tool that formats your source details into correct APA 7th edition in-text citations and reference list entries. It runs on a pool of leading AI models, automatically selecting the best one for your specific request, and delivers accurate summaries, translations, action items, and structured knowledge from documents and audio in seconds. No account or subscription is required. Built for knowledge workers, students, and managers who process large volumes of information daily, it is private by default: nothing is stored after your session ends.
- ✦Open and use it — no account required for any text tool
- ✦Documents route automatically to a model suited to the task
- ✦Files and text are processed for your result, then cleared with the session
For the best results: Paste the source details — author(s), year, title, journal/publisher, DOI or URL. Missing a detail? It applies APA's own rule (like "n.d.") or tells you exactly what to look up.
Use cases
What people use it for
Reference journal articles with DOIs for a psychology lab report due at midnight.
Repair a reference list marked down for capitalisation and italics errors before resubmission.
Cite an organisation-authored government report with matching in-text and reference list entries.
Who uses APA Citation Generator?
How it works
- 1Paste the text, upload the file, or describe the task.
- 2The best-suited model extracts, transforms, or organises it.
- 3Copy the structured result into wherever the work happens.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do I get the in-text citation as well as the reference entry?
Both, matched to each other. You'll get the reference list entry plus the parenthetical form, like (Nguyen, 2023), and the narrative form, Nguyen (2023), for weaving into a sentence. Having the pair generated together avoids the classic mismatch where an in-text name or year doesn't correspond to anything in the reference list.
What does APA do with a source that has no date?
APA 7 substitutes 'n.d.' — no date — in both the in-text citation and the reference entry, so (Smith, n.d.) is perfectly valid. Provide the details you have and the tool applies this automatically. Don't guess a year to fill the slot; an honest n.d. is correct APA, while a wrong date is an error a marker can check.
How are works with three or more authors cited in the text?
From the very first citation, APA 7 shortens these to the first author plus 'et al.' — a change from the old sixth-edition rule that many online guides still get wrong. The reference list entry differs: it names every author up to twenty before an ellipsis kicks in. The tool applies both rules, so in-text and reference forms won't match author-for-author, and that's correct.
Why has it lowercased most of my article title?
That's sentence case, and APA requires it for article and book titles: only the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns keep their capitals. Journal names stay in title case and italics, which is why the two look inconsistent side by side. Markers check this specific detail constantly, so resist the urge to 'fix' it back.
Can it build a reference list from just my essay topic?
No, and be wary of anything that offers to. This tool formats sources you supply; asked to produce references from thin air, AI systems fabricate authentic-looking studies complete with fake DOIs, and universities now routinely verify them. Find real papers through your library or a database first — formatting them correctly is the part this tool takes off your hands.
What are the usage limits?
Text-based productivity tools are unmetered during the current free launch phase; audio-based ones share the audio fair-use limits since transcription costs real compute. Normal daily use never notices either. Paid plans with higher limits and priority model access are coming soon.
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