APA Formatting Tool
Automatic APA 7th Edition Formatting for Academic Papers
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What is APA Format?
APA (American Psychological Association) format is the most widely used citation and formatting style in the social sciences, education, psychology, and business. The APA 7th Edition (2020) is the current standard, with updated guidelines for digital sources, inclusive language, and simplified formatting.
Font & Size
12pt Times New Roman, Calibri, or Arial
Margins
1 inch on all sides
Line Spacing
Double-spaced throughout
Page Numbers
Top right, starting from title page
Headings
5 levels with specific formatting
References
Hanging indent, alphabetical order
Why Use Our APA Formatting Tool?
Manual APA formatting is tedious and error-prone. StyleMyPaper automates the entire process.
Save Hours of Work
What takes hours manually is done in minutes. Upload your document and get an instant APA compliance report.
Auto-Fix That Shows What Changed
The next step after your report: APA fixes applied for you, with a clear rundown of what changed and why.
APA 7th Edition Accurate
Built on the latest Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed., 2020).
Every Rule Shown in Your Report
The report lists every rule we checked, organized under the APA chapters that govern them, with links to the official APA style pages.
Complete APA 7th Edition Checklist
Our tool checks all of these APA formatting requirements automatically:
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What APA 7th Edition Actually Requires
If you have ever submitted a research paper and gotten it back with more formatting comments than content feedback, you are not alone. APA 7th edition has rules for nearly every visual element of your document, and most graduate students spend years mastering their research only to get tripped up by margin widths and comma placement in the final stretch.
The rules fall into four categories. Document setup covers margins (exactly 1 inch on all sides), line spacing (double throughout, with no extra before/after paragraph spacing), font, and page numbers. These apply to every APA paper, whatever its length. Headings govern how you organize your document. APA requires five heading levels used in sequence, and you can never skip a level. In-text citations have their own rules around parenthetical ordering, number formatting, and when to spell out "and" versus using an ampersand. References follow strict formatting for italics, punctuation, and URL presentation that differs from every other style guide.
None of this reflects the quality of your research. But catching every violation across a document you have been writing for weeks or months is genuinely hard. That is exactly what StyleMyPaper is built for.
The Mistakes Your Committee and Professors Will Catch
How StyleMyPaper Catches These Automatically
StyleMyPaper checks your document against 70+ APA 7th edition rules the moment you upload it, whether you are submitting a weekly response paper or a semester-long capstone. It flags margin violations, identifies capitalization errors in headings and lists, detects skipped heading levels, catches spacing issues, verifies your in-text citations appear in your reference list, and checks reference formatting including italics placement. We tell you what changed and why, so you and your committee or professor can see exactly what we corrected. Upload your draft and get your full diagnostic report before your next submission deadline.
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Common APA Formatting Questions
What's the difference between APA 6th and 7th edition?
APA 7th Edition (2020) includes simplified formatting, new guidelines for inclusive language, updated in-text citation rules, and modern DOI formatting. Running heads are now optional for student papers.
Does this work with Microsoft Word documents?
Yes! Upload any .docx file and we'll analyze it for APA compliance. After formatting, download your corrected document with all changes tracked so you can review them in Word.
Can you format my reference list?
Absolutely. We verify your references against scholarly databases and format them according to APA 7th edition rules including hanging indentation, author formatting, and proper DOI display.