Convert your paper's entire reference list to APA 7th edition
APA 7 changed several things from APA 6, and many people’s citations are still written the old way. Upload the DOCX; we apply 7th-edition rules and leave your body text alone.
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1,000 words costs 5 credits
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What this style looks like
- In-text citation
- (Smith & Lee, 2023)
- Reference list entry
- Smith, J., & Lee, A. (2023). Deep learning for protein folding. Nature Methods, 20(3), 245–258. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01234-5
What changed in the 7th edition, and why your citations may still be 6th
APA 7 was published in 2019, but templates circulating online, examples handed out in class, and even some citation generators still produce 6th-edition output. Four patterns are the most common stale markers.
Publisher location is gone. APA 6 wanted "New York, NY: Routledge"; APA 7 wants just "Routledge". It is the easiest outdated marker to spot.
DOIs are written as full URLs, and "Retrieved from" is mostly unnecessary now - APA 7 uses it only when content may change and a retrieval date is warranted.
Author-count rules changed, in opposite directions. In-text citations use "et al." from the third author onward, where APA 6 required seven or more; the reference list can name up to 20 authors, where APA 6 stopped at seven. That is exactly why the two numbers get mixed up.
FAQ
Will it change my body text?
No. The body is frozen throughout; only in-text citations and the reference list are processed. That is also why it costs far less than humanizing - 5 credits per 1,000 words.
My citations are APA 6. Can they be updated to 7?
Yes - the publisher-location, DOI, retrieval-note, and author-count differences are all handled.
Are in-text et al. rules applied?
Yes, per 7th-edition rules: "et al." from three authors onward.
Will the reference list be reordered?
APA orders alphabetically by author surname, and the list is arranged accordingly.
What does it cost for one paper?
5 credits per 1,000 words - the cheapest of our four tools, because only the citations are processed. An 8,000-word paper runs about 40 credits (under $0.50). New accounts get 100 free credits.