CITATION GENERATOR · APA
APA citation generator.
Paste a DOI to get an APA 7th edition reference and in-text citation, ready to copy into your paper. Free, no account, and it runs in your browser.
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Lookups go from your browser straight to Crossref or DataCite, the registries that issue DOIs; nothing is sent to Docr’d. Your list is saved in this browser only.
The APA 7 reference format
A journal article in APA 7 has the authors, the year, the article title, then the journal, volume, issue and pages, and the DOI as a link:
LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539
- Authors are surname then initials, with an ampersand before the last. List up to 20; with 21 or more, give the first 19, an ellipsis, then the last author.
- The article title is in sentence case and not italic. The journal name and the volume number are italic; the issue number in brackets is not.
- The DOI is written as a
https://doi.org/link, with no “Retrieved from” and no full stop after it. - The reference list is alphabetical by the first author’s surname, with a hanging indent.
APA in-text citations
APA cites in the text by author and year. The tool shows the parenthetical form for each reference:
| One author | (Hinton, 2015) or Hinton (2015) |
|---|---|
| Two authors | (LeCun & Bengio, 2015) or LeCun and Bengio (2015) |
| Three or more | (LeCun et al., 2015) or LeCun et al. (2015), from the first citation |
| A quotation | (LeCun et al., 2015, p. 437), adding the page yourself |
What to check
The reference is built from what the publisher registered for the DOI. APA wants article titles in sentence case, and a citation tool cannot reliably lower-case a title without breaking names and acronyms, so a title registered in title case keeps its capitals: change it to sentence case by hand. Add any missing issue or page numbers from the article itself.
Need another style? The same tool does MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver and more, and BibTeX for LaTeX.
Keep your references in a library
Docr’d is a research library for papers, books and standards. It keeps your PDFs, notes and highlights together, and copies citations in APA and thirteen other styles, or as BibTeX and RIS. The desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux are free to use without an account. Docr’d is in early access, so you may run into rough edges.
Credits
Citations are formatted in your browser by citeproc-js, (c) Frank Bennett — citeproc-js implements the Citation Style Language, used under the Common Public Attribution License 1.0 (see our modification notice), with styles from the CSL project under CC BY-SA 3.0. Records come from Crossref and DataCite. More on how it works on the citation generator page.