Citefast.com is a free ad-supported citation generator. It seems to do a good job. However, you need to know what you are doing. We recommend using the the Manual entry mode, rather than using the search feature.
Time saver: If you found an article in a library database, you probably emailed it to yourself. This email probably includes the APA citation too!
- Choose the right publication type.
- Book
- Journal (for an article)
- Other (browse the possible types)
- Webpage
- Warning: don't use this for any web source you find.
- Ebooks belong under Books,
- Online news articles belong under "Newspapers," etc.
- Use Webpage only when there is no other type that fits, and the work has no parent publication (e.g. journal, blog) other than the website itself.
- Don't use the search box provided. This will lead you astray.
- Instead click Manual
- Carefully fill in the form, as directed.
- Remember garbage, garbage out!