APA citation generator
Build APA 7th-edition references from author, year, title and source.
How to use
- Fill the fields: authors as "Surname, A. B.", separated by semicolons.
- For a website put the site name in Source; for a book, the publisher; for a journal article, "Journal, volume(issue), pages".
- Copy the reference and italicise the title or journal name in your document.
Frequently asked questions
How do I enter multiple authors?
Separate them with semicolons: "Sari, D.; Putra, B.". The tool applies APA joining rules — ampersands, commas and the 20-author ellipsis — automatically.
What if the page has no date?
Leave Year empty and the citation correctly shows (n.d.) — APA's "no date" marker.
Why is nothing italicised?
Plain text cannot carry italics. Paste the reference into your document and italicise the work's title (or journal name and volume) there, per APA style.
About this tool
Reference lists are where report-writing time goes to die: every period, ampersand and parenthesis in APA style has a place, and markers take off points when they wander. This generator assembles an APA 7th-edition reference from five fields — author(s), year, title, source and URL. Multiple authors are joined by APA rules automatically: two authors get an ampersand, up to twenty are comma-listed, and longer lists get the ellipsis treatment. A missing year correctly becomes (n.d.). The same skeleton serves websites (source = site name), books (source = publisher) and journal articles (source = "Journal Name, volume(issue), pages"). Output is plain text — apply italics to the title or journal name when pasting into your document, since plain text cannot carry them.