LibGuides: Citation Resources: APA

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is widely used in behavioral and social sciences. Make sure to check your class syllabus or ask your instructor if you should use the 6th edition (2010) or the 7th edition (2019) for your assignments.

See examples of APA Reference entries on the Academic Success Center's APA: References page.

APA 7th Edition Quick Links

The following links from the APA Style website will help you quickly format your paper and references using APA 7th edition style rules:

Annotated Student Sample Paper (example paper with helpful notes on formatting and citation style)
Reference Quick Guide (for articles and books)
Reference Examples (covers a wider range of sources)
Elements of Reference List Entries (formatting author, date, title, and source)
Missing Reference Information (when you're missing an author, title, date, etc.)
More About References (including databases, DOIs, URLs, etc.)
In-Text Citations (citing in the body of your paper and avoiding plagiarism)
Paper Format (title page setup, margins, headers, line spacing, etc.)
Handouts and Guides (downloadable and printable documents)

In addition to the APA Style website resources listed above, we also highly recommend The Excelsior OWL APA website.

APA Academic Writer

Academic Writer is the APA's own online resource for APA style. Once you've logged in, you can:

Click the LEARN tab to search the Manual and a collection of tutorials, download sample papers, or see example citations for hundreds of source types.
Click the REFERENCE tab to build and manage your own list of references in APA style.
Click the WRITE tab to write your paper using an APA style template, and invite your teammates to help.

Click here to get started!

Suggested Websites

We like to use the following websites:

APA Style and Grammar Guidelines: Examples and instructional handouts from the APA (7th edition).
Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL): APA: Provides instructions and examples for formatting and citing in APA style (both 6th and 7th edition).

Citation Resources: APA

APA 7th Edition Quick Links

APA Academic Writer

Suggested Websites

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