APA Citation Generator

Paste DOIs and copy references in APA Style, 7th edition.

Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in APA Style, 7th edition using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.

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Questions

What does a journal article look like in APA style?

For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: Jumper, J., Evans, R., Pritzel, A., Green, T., Figurnov, M., Ronneberger, O., Tunyasuvunakool, K., Bates, R., Žídek, A., Potapenko, A., Bridgland, A., Meyer, C., Kohl, S. A. A., Ballard, A. J., Cowie, A., Romera-Paredes, B., Nikolov, S., Jain, R., Adler, J., … Hassabis, D. (2021). Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature, 596(7873), 583–589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2

How do in-text citations work in APA?

APA 7 uses author and year: (Jumper et al., 2021). For three or more authors, give the first author and et al. from the first citation.

How many authors do I list in APA?

List up to 20 authors. With 21 or more, list the first 19, an ellipsis, then the final author.

How do I cite a DOI in APA?

Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in APA Style, 7th edition. Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.

Can I format for a specific journal instead?

Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.

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