APA Style Guide
APA stands for American Psychological Association, the professional guild who first developed the guidelines of the style. APA is a style of formatting academic papers that is used mostly in the social sciences.
APA Reference List
APA style requires a Reference List, or list of sources used in your paper, included at the end or as an appendix to your main paper. The Reference List provides the reader with the names of the sources used in your research, giving credit to the people and organizations who made the research possible.
For APA, here are a few links to different guides on how to format your Reference List:
- Excelsior University Online Writing Lab
- APA Style Official website
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab
APA In-Text Citations
APA style uses in-text citations to show where individual pieces of information come from. APA in-text citations include the author’s last name, the page number where the information came from, and the year that the work was published.
Below, are links to three different guides to in-text citations in APA format:
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