Citing Sources in APA
According to APA 7th Edition guidelines you need to find out as much information as you can about who created and published a source and when. You communicate this to your audience through in-text and Reference List citations which your readers can look up themselves.
APA Guides
Recommended sources for help with APA style guidelines:
- APAstyle.orgFree online help directly from the American Psychological Association. Scroll down to "Quick Answers" section for help with references and formatting.
- Purdue OWL APA Formatting & Style GuideFree APA help online from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL). Provides examples and instructions for commonly cited materials, as well as a sample APA paper and tips for avoiding plagiarism. The left-hand menu has guidance for both in-text citations and the references list at the end of your paper.
Format:
Last Name, First/Middle Initial. (Year Published). Title of: Journal that has first words capitalized. Journal Title, volume #(issue #), page range. doi.
Example:
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
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