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Google Scholar now has a cite button on each reference which makes it easy to get an APA formatted reference. See the announcment on the blog and this image taken from the blog post:

example of using cite feature in google scholar

Implications

I hope that this encourages more users to add formatted references to questions and answers.

See also:

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    A good find, Jeromy! If I run across any old "link only" citations, I will make some attempt to clean them up.
    – Chuck Sherrington
    Oct 18 '12 at 3:06
  • While not quite as important as site promotion, I thought this info might benefit from being featured for a couple of weeks (e.g., until perhaps end of October 2012). Let me know if anyone disagrees.
    – Jeromy Anglim
    Oct 18 '12 at 3:11
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    I think that's a great idea. Honestly, I think our site is one of the more diligent about writing references properly, but this will help us clean up any corners that we've missed.
    – Chuck Sherrington
    Oct 18 '12 at 3:13
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    This is pretty amazing, Jeromy! :D And @ChuckSherrington I would agree -- you guys are like Skeptics-level of citation OCD. :D
    – Aarthi
    Oct 18 '12 at 6:07
  • Now all we need is an automatic DOI link to be added. :) (... and while we're at it, an automated search for free PDF versions)
    – Steven Jeuris Mod
    Oct 18 '12 at 9:14
  • @JeromyAnglim another reason to prefer Google Scholar? ;)
    – Artem Kaznatcheev
    Oct 18 '12 at 18:08
  • Ugh where was this when I was in collage
    – Ben Brocka
    Nov 5 '12 at 5:38

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