Free APA 6 Citation Generator
The previous APA edition, still required by some departments. Includes the publisher location. Paste a DOI, ISBN or link and get a correctly formatted APA 6th edition reference plus the matching in-text citation — free, instant and unlimited. Commonly required in: departments still on the older apa template.
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Four common source types, formatted exactly as APA 6th edition expects.
Journal article
Okonkwo, C., & Bello, A. (2023). Mobile learning adoption among undergraduate students. Computers & Education, 196, 104-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104118
In-text: (Okonkwo & Bello, 2023)
Book
Tanenbaum, A. S. (2011). Computer networks (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
In-text: (Tanenbaum, 2011)
Web page
(2024). Education statistics 2024. UNESCO Institute for Statistics. https://uis.unesco.org/education-statistics
In-text: (Anon., 2024)
Thesis
Mwangi, G. (2022). A machine learning approach to crop yield prediction [MSc thesis]. University of Nairobi.
In-text: (Mwangi, 2022)
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