The latest version of Microsoft Edge comes with a useful feature: automatically generate APA appointments

Those who have done a final degree project or an article with a certain rigor have surely come across the Citas en APA. Citing in APA is relatively easy when you know the structure, but if time has taught us something, it is that there is always an application to do it automatically. Today that “application” comes to Microsoft Edge natively.

Microsoft has rolled out the Microsoft Edge version 97, your desktop browser. Among the most outstanding novelties is the tool to generate appointments in APA automatically, something that was already available to users insiders and that now reaches all users. Here’s how it works.

Integrated in the collections and just one click

The dating tool is built into Collections, an Edge feature that lets you save links directly in the browser. At the moment, the tool is limited to a fixed number of academic websites and scientific journals, although from Microsoft they assure that it could be expanded in the future.

And what happens when the web is not supported? On the one hand, that the tool does not generate the appointment. On the other hand, that we can add it manually filling in the pertinent information, such as the author, the website, the publication date and the URL.

In either case, the appointment will be saved next to the link of the article in question within the collection. This is interesting for, for example, have all the references of an article at hand that we are preparing. We simply have to save the links in the collection and then copy and paste each quote into the document.

A website that works automatically is Nature, the well-known scientific journal. If we keep this article in the collection and we generate the appointment, Microsoft Edge will automatically return the following to us

McElrath,Morten (2022). RNA profiles reveal signatures of future health and disease in pregnancy. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03819-2

In addition to APA7 (the latest version), Microsoft Edge 97 allows citing in Chicago, Harvard, IEEE and MLA. It should be noted that the tool generates the complete citation (which is the one just above these lines) and the text citation, which in this case would be like this: (McElrath et al., 2022). The new version of Edge is already being deployed, so it will be a matter of time before it reaches all users.