Free APA 7th Edition Formatter & Citation Generator

The APA 7th Edition demands a highly rigid title page structure that trips up most students. It requires your paper title to be bolded and centered in the upper half of the page, followed by a specific sequence: your name, your academic department and university, the course number and name, your instructor's name, and the assignment due date. Our document builder automatically maps your information to these exact coordinates, eliminating the need to hit the 'Enter' key repeatedly just to guess the spacing.

One of the most confusing rules in APA formatting is capitalization on the References page. For journal articles, the article title must be written in 'sentence case' (only the first word, proper nouns, and the first word after a colon are capitalized). However, the journal name itself must be in 'Title Case' and italicized. Our Smart Citation engine parses your Crossref data and applies these exact typographic rules instantly, saving you from losing points on technicalities.

If you are still using APA 6th Edition rules, you are likely citing multiple authors incorrectly. In the 7th Edition, any source with three or more authors must be shortened to the first author's name followed by 'et al.' starting from the very first in-text citation. Our formatter automatically detects author counts and formats your parenthetical citations to match the latest manual perfectly.

APA requires strict 1-inch margins on all sides, standard 12pt serif or sans-serif fonts, and double-spacing throughout the entire text, including the reference list. Most importantly, the References page requires a hanging indent, where the first line of a citation is flush left and all subsequent lines are indented by 0.5 inches. Our rendering engine locks these spatial rules into your final .docx file before you even click download.