There are a few tools out there to help you create APA citations. Whenever you use any tool to create an APA citation, please make sure you check it against the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Some don't accomodate unusual citations or they work with a generic template that doesn't follow APA to the letter.
In CSA, QuikBib is available to create citations you find to APA format. You can then email them or paste them into your document. To find this feature, simply search CSA as usual, then select your records and click on Save, Print, Email. Look for the section that starts with "New! Create a bibliography with QuikBib (Only records for Published Works will be processed.)" Choose the APA format and click on Create. A new window will open with output options at the upper right hand corner. It is easy and almost painless.
There are some software applications out there that help manage and create citations.*
EndNote (for purchase)
BiblioExpress (free)
*We haven't fully evaluated these yet, but several students we know use EndNote and love it. Let us know what you think if you try either of these.
There are also some citation creators freely available on the Web.
KnightCite - created at Calvin College
There are others like this out there, just search "citation creator" or similar terms in your favorite search engine, but this looked like a good one. Please share with us if you have a favorite citation creator. As with the other options, please be very wary of tools that don't really adhere to APA format. For example, my initial look at Son of Citation Machine, another Web-based citation creator, didn't make the cut for me.
