APA style is the citation format published by the American Psychological Association and is the standard for psychology, education, and many social-science courses. A basic reference-list entry follows the pattern Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work. Publisher — with the URL appended when the source is a webpage rather than a printed book or journal article. This tool assembles that pattern from the fields you fill in, so you always get consistent punctuation and ordering without memorizing the rules.
Leave the field blank and the generator falls back to APA's placeholders — a generic "Author, A." and "(n.d.)" for "no date" — so the citation stays structurally correct while you fill in the real details later.
This tool builds the full reference-list entry that goes on your References page. For an in-text citation you'd typically use the shorter (Author, Year) form pulled from the same details.
Add a URL when citing a webpage, online article, or a source you only accessed digitally. For a print book or journal article with a DOI, you'd typically use the DOI link instead, or omit a URL entirely.
Type the author, year, title and publisher, add a link if the source is online, and press Generate. You get a single reference line laid out the way APA 7th edition expects: author, year in brackets, title, publisher, then the URL.
It's meant for the quick jobs: a book, a report or a web page you need to drop into a bibliography without opening the style manual again. Write the author exactly as it should appear, initial and period included, because the tool puts your text in place as typed rather than reformatting names for you.
Journal articles and other source types have extra parts (volume, issue, page range, DOI) that this form doesn't ask for, so for those treat the output as a starting point and add the missing details by hand.
Rivera, M. 2021 How small habits stick Harbor Press https://example.com/habits
Rivera, M. (2021). How small habits stick. Harbor Press. https://example.com/habits
Italics for the title can't be carried through a plain-text copy, so add them in your document afterwards. Alphabetize the finished list yourself, since each entry is generated on its own.