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What a reference in APA 7 looks like
The shape is always the same: who, when, what, where. Once you can see it, you can check any reference a generator gives you, including this one.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pages. https://doi.org/xxxx
Aspelmeyer, M. (2009). Measured measurement. Nature Physics, 5(1), 11-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170
BOOK
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the work. Publisher.
Dahl, R. (1988). Matilda. Jonathan Cape.
WEB PAGE
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of page. Site Name. URL
World Health Organization. (2024, March 7). Air quality and health. WHO. https://www.who.int/
Three things APA 7 asks for that people get wrong
Up to twenty authors
The sixth edition stopped at seven and used an ellipsis after the sixth. The seventh lists up to twenty in full, and only then uses an ellipsis before the final author. A long author list cut short at seven was written to the old rule.
The publisher's city is gone
APA 7 dropped it. 'London: Routledge' is a sixth edition habit; it is now just 'Routledge'.
A DOI is a link
Write it as a full https://doi.org/ address. Not 'doi:10.1038/...', and not bare. The same rule made 'Retrieved from' unnecessary before a plain URL.
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Questions
Is this APA 7 or APA 6?
APA 7, the current edition, published in 2019. The three changes that most often give away a sixth edition reference are listed above.
How do I write the in-text citation?
Author and year in brackets, for example (Aspelmeyer, 2009). Three or more authors are shortened to the first author followed by et al. from the first mention, which is another seventh edition change.
What if there is no date?
Use n.d. in place of the year, in both the reference and the in-text citation.
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