Citation Converter to APA

This converter reformats references you already have instead of asking you to type a source out field by field. You paste a reference list, and each line is read apart into its pieces: the author names, the year, the title, the journal or site, the volume, the issue, the page range, and the DOI or link. Those pieces are then rebuilt in the order APA 7 puts them.

Reading a reference is the harder half. MLA hides the year at the end of the line, Chicago wraps it in brackets after the volume, Vancouver runs the whole thing together with semicolons and colons, and IEEE opens with a bracketed number and writes initials before surnames. Rather than matching one fixed pattern per style, the tool looks for the shape of each element wherever it sits, which is why a reference with a missing comma or an abbreviated journal name usually still converts.

Rebuilding then applies the APA rules that cost the most time by hand. First names shrink to initials, the year moves into brackets next to the author, titles drop to sentence case, volume and issue collapse into 34(2), page ranges take an en dash, and a bare DOI becomes a full https://doi.org/ link. Lists longer than twenty authors get the first nineteen, an ellipsis, and the final name.

Everything runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded. Read the output before you submit it, since proper nouns inside titles and unusual abbreviations still need a human eye.