About this apa citation generator
APA 7 has a small number of rules that account for most reference-list errors. Author names are inverted and initialized, so Jane Austen becomes Austen, J., and the final author in a list is preceded by an ampersand rather than the word and. A source with no date takes n.d. in the date position. A source with no author does not start with a blank: the title moves into the author position, which changes the order of the whole entry. Italics carry meaning too, sitting on the book title, the journal name, and the volume number but not the issue number in parentheses. This generator applies those rules to the fields you enter, so the common cases come out right without you holding the manual open. It works entirely in your browser, and the preview marks exactly which parts are italic so you can reapply that after pasting.