Apa Style Citation

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Content · Sub-category: content-misc

Generate, format, and validate academic citations following APA 7th Edition (2019) guidelines. Use when user requests: citations, reference lists, bibliographies, in-text citations, or mentions "APA style", "APA format", "APA 7", "cite this", "reference list", academic references, or scholarly sources. Handles all source types: books, journals, websites, AI tools, social media, videos, podcasts, government documents, and edge cases. Can check/correct existing citations and generate complete reference lists from research materials.

What this skill does

Apa Style Citation is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/apa-style-citation/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when user requests: citations, reference lists, bibliographies, in-text citations, or mentions "APA style", "APA format", "APA 7", "cite this", "reference list", academic references, or scholarly sources. Handles all source types: books, journals, websites, AI tools, social media, videos, podcasts, government documents, and edge cases.

Who uses this skill

The Apa Style Citation skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/apa-style-citation
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/apa-style-citation/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/apa-style-citation/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/apa-style-citation/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/apa-style-citation/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\apa-style-citation\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.