Article to PDF + APA Citation by The_Real_Guna

Article to PDF + APA Citation reads the page you are on, strips out the nav bars, ads, and sidebars, and turns just the article into a clean, properly formatted PDF, with an APA-style citation already built in.

Why it is useful

Save research, course readings, or reference articles as portable, properly cited PDFs. No print dialog, no manual citation formatting.
Everything happens on your device. No server, no account, and no tracking. See the privacy policy for details.

How it works

Click the toolbar icon on any article.
The extension pulls out the article text (using Mozilla's own Readability library, the engine behind Firefox's Reader Mode) and scans the page for author, site name, and publish date.
Review and edit the pre-filled Title / Author / Site / Date fields. The APA citation preview updates as you type.
Click "Generate PDF." The file downloads immediately: title, citation (with a clickable source link), then the full article with its headings, lists, tables, quotes, and images, plus page numbers. Links inside the article stay clickable in the PDF.
Built for course readings On learning-management systems like D2L Brightspace and Canvas, a reading often sits in a frame inside the module page. The extension finds it there, so you can click the icon right on the module page instead of opening the reading in a new tab first. If a reading is hosted on a different site from the course, open it in its own tab as before.

Permissions, plainly

activeTab + scripting: only used to read the page you click the icon on, and only after you click it. Nothing runs in the background, and no other tabs are touched. This also covers fetching images for embedding, run from inside the page itself rather than a separate origin, so the request behaves like the browser's own normal image loading.

No host permission is granted automatically. Some third-party image hosts, equation and formula renderers used by learning-management systems being a common example, serve images fine for normal display but never send the headers a fetch request needs. Only when an article references such a host does the extension ask Firefox, right when you click Generate PDF, for permission to that one specific site, not every site you visit. Firefox shows its own native prompt naming the exact origin before granting anything.

downloads: only used to save the PDF you just generated to your computer. Not used to read, list, or manage any other downloads.