Which APA edition does this follow?

It follows APA 7th edition (2020). Up to 20 authors are listed before an ellipsis-and-final-author cut, journal titles and volumes are italicised, titles use sentence case, and DOIs are shown as full https://doi.org/ links.

How are author names handled?

Each author is inverted to Surname, Initials. Two authors are joined with an ampersand; three or more use commas with an ampersand before the last. The list is alphabetised by the first author's surname, as APA requires.

Which entry types are supported?

Common BibTeX types are handled — @article (journal), @book, @inbook/@incollection (chapter in an edited book), @inproceedings/@conference, @phdthesis/@mastersthesis, and @misc/@online (web sources). Unknown types fall back to a generic format.

Does it fix capitalisation?

APA uses sentence case for article and book titles. The tool lowercases the title except the first word and the word after a colon, while preserving text you protected with curly braces in the BibTeX (for proper nouns and acronyms).

Is my bibliography uploaded?

No. Parsing and formatting happen entirely in your browser, so your unpublished reference list never leaves your device.

BibTeX to APA 7 Reference List

A BibTeX to APA 7 converter turns the raw @article{…} records exported by Zotero, Mendeley or Google Scholar into a polished APA 7th edition reference list — correctly inverted author names, sentence-case titles, italicised journals, and full DOI links. Everything runs in your browser, so your bibliography stays private.

How it works

The tool first parses the BibTeX: it reads each @type{key, field = {value}, …} record, handling braces and quotes around values, and decodes common LaTeX accents (e.g. {\"o} → ö). Then it formats each entry to APA 7 rules:

Authors are inverted to Surname, A. B., joined with commas and a final ampersand (up to 20, then … and the last author).
Year follows the authors in parentheses: (2021).
Title is rendered in sentence case (only the first word, the word after a colon, and brace-protected proper nouns are capitalised).
Source depends on type: a journal article shows *Journal*, *volume*(issue), pages.; a book shows the title in italics then the publisher.
DOI is appended as https://doi.org/….

References are then sorted alphabetically by the first author’s surname.

Example

The BibTeX:

@article{smith2021,
  author = {Smith, Jane and Doe, John},
  title  = {A study of {DNA} repair},
  journal= {Nature},
  year   = {2021}, volume = {12}, number = {3}, pages = {45--58},
  doi    = {10.1000/xyz}
}

becomes:

Smith, J., & Doe, J. (2021). A study of DNA repair. Nature, 12(3), 45–58. https://doi.org/10.1000/xyz

Tips and notes

Protect proper nouns and acronyms in the BibTeX with braces ({DNA}) so APA sentence-casing keeps them capitalised.
Use -- for page ranges in BibTeX; the tool converts it to an en dash.
Missing fields are skipped gracefully rather than printing empty brackets.