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    APA rules students get wrong

    APA 7th edition, 7th edition (2020). Used in: Psychology, education, nursing, business and most social sciences.

    • Up to 20 authors are listed in the reference; the in-text citation uses the first author and "et al." from three authors on.
    • Article and book titles are in sentence case; journal names are in title case and italics.
    • Include the DOI as a https://doi.org/ link whenever the work has one.
    • The publisher location is no longer given for books.
    • Cite a specific moment of a video or podcast with a timestamp: (3Blue1Brown, 2017, 4:15).

    APA examples for every source

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    Journal article

    References entry

    LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., & Hinton, G. (2015). Deep learning. Nature, 521(7553), 436–444. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539

    In-text citation

    (LeCun et al., 2015, p. 437)

    Book

    References entry

    Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    In-text citation

    (Kahneman, 2011, p. 20)

    Chapter in an edited book

    References entry

    Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1982). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases (pp. 3–20). Cambridge University Press.

    In-text citation

    (Tversky & Kahneman, 1982, p. 4)

    Web page

    References entry

    World Health Organization. (2023, March 31). Depression. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression

    In-text citation

    (World Health Organization, 2023)

    YouTube video

    References entry

    3Blue1Brown. (2017, October 5). But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

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    (3Blue1Brown, 2017, 4:15)

    Podcast episode

    References entry

    Glass, I. (2011, August 12). Amusement park (No. 443) [Audio podcast episode]. In This American Life. WBEZ Chicago. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/443/amusement-park

    In-text citation

    (Glass, 2011, 12:30)

    Lecture or speech

    References entry

    Pausch, R. (2007, September 18). Really achieving your childhood dreams [Lecture]. Journeys Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

    In-text citation

    (Pausch, 2007, 10:05)

    Newspaper article

    References entry

    Roose, K. (2023, February 16). A conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply unsettled. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html

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    (Roose, 2023)

    Magazine article

    References entry

    Carr, N. (2008, July). Is Google making us stupid? The Atlantic, 302(1), 56–63.

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    (Carr, 2008, p. 57)

    Report

    References entry

    World Health Organization. (2022). World mental health report: Transforming mental health for all. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049338

    In-text citation

    (World Health Organization, 2022)

    Thesis or dissertation

    References entry

    Nash, J. F. (1950). Non-cooperative games [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University.

    In-text citation

    (Nash, 1950)

    Conference paper

    References entry

    Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, Ł., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.

    In-text citation

    (Vaswani et al., 2017)

    Dataset

    References entry

    Fisher, R. A. (1988). Iris [Dataset]. UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C56C76

    In-text citation

    (Fisher, 1988)

    Film

    References entry

    Nolan, C. (Director). (2010). Inception [Film]. Warner Bros. Pictures.

    In-text citation

    (Nolan, 2010, 1:12:05)

    Software or app

    References entry

    R Core Team. (2023). R: A language and environment for statistical computing (Version 4.3.1) [Computer software]. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. https://www.R-project.org/

    In-text citation

    (R Core Team, 2023)

    ChatGPT or other AI

    References entry

    OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

    In-text citation

    (OpenAI, 2023)

    Dictionary or encyclopedia entry

    References entry

    Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Culture. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved September 28, 2026, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture

    In-text citation

    (Merriam-Webster, n.d.)

    Preprint (arXiv, SSRN, bioRxiv)

    References entry

    Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2018). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding (arXiv:1810.04805). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1810.04805

    In-text citation

    (Devlin et al., 2018)

    Blog post

    References entry

    Karpathy, A. (2015, May 21). The unreasonable effectiveness of recurrent neural networks. Andrej Karpathy Blog. https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

    In-text citation

    (Karpathy, 2015)

    Court case

    References entry

    Mabo v Queensland (No 2), 175 CLR 1 (HCA 1992).

    In-text citation

    (Mabo v Queensland (No 2), 1992, p. 42)

    Legislation

    References entry

    Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (1988).

    In-text citation

    (Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), 1988, § 6)

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    Which edition of APA does this follow?

    APA 7th edition: 7th edition (2020), formatted from the apa style in the Citation Style Language repository. It matches 17 reference examples from the APA Style website character for character. Another 5 differ (report, conference paper, dataset and podcast episode), so check those source types against the manual.

    Who uses APA?

    Psychology, education, nursing, business and most social sciences.

    Is the APA generator free?

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    Where do the details come from when I paste a DOI or link?

    DOIs come from Crossref and DataCite, ISBNs from Open Library and Google Books, PubMed IDs from NCBI, arXiv IDs from arXiv, YouTube links from YouTube, and web pages from the citation metadata the publisher embeds in the page (the same tags Google Scholar reads). Pages that carry no metadata are filled in as far as possible and the gaps are flagged for you.

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