APA 7th Referencing & Format Checker

This APA 7th edition referencing and format checker allows you to paste your academic paper, essay, or reference list to instantly scan for citation errors, referencing issues, and formatting mistakes aligned with APA 7th standards. It is ideal for university research papers, essays, journal submissions, and dissertations, helping you generate a detailed APA compliance report in seconds before submission. This APA 7th edition format checker also functions as an online APA in-text citation checker for academic papers by reviewing author-date formatting, et al. usage, and DOI/URL structures.

The tool examines both in-text citations and the reference list, identifying issues such as incorrect author-date pairs, missing or misformatted DOIs and URLs, and problems with reference list alphabetisation. It also acts as an APA reference list checker that highlights errors in hanging indents, heading levels, title page structure, margins, and double spacing to ensure your paper follows APA 7th rules. You can choose to check in-text citations, the reference list, paper formatting, or all three, then receive a comprehensive report with flagged issues, line numbers, and correction suggestions.

By acting as an APA 7th edition compliance checker, this tool helps you avoid marks being deducted for formatting by scanning for common citation and layout mistakes before your lecturer or reviewer sees them. It saves hours of manual checking against the APA manual by providing instant format validation, detailed error locations, and clear explanations so you can learn the rules as you fix each issue. Trusted by Australian students, researchers, educators, and journal editors, it supports cleaner submissions while keeping your text private and using it only to generate the APA check report.