APA 7 Citations: Additional Help

The American Psychological Association now offers a great deal of information online at https://apapstyle.apa.org to help you understand how to use APA style. You may find the links below helpful:

Style and Grammar Guidelines 

Paper Format 

The APA Style Blog

Here's a link to the The Student Title Page Guide and how to set up the title page.

Here's a blog post - Student papers no longer require running heads! 

Here's a link to a template for APA Style Headings in student papers. This template shows formatting and positioning for different level headings within the body of your paper.

Here's a Reference Quick Guide, APA Style, 7th Edition with reference citation formats for a journal, book, and chapter in an edited book.

Contact APA via email or social media to ask their experts your citation questions. 

They answer questions Mondays - Fridays, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. however, it may take them three days to respond, so don't wait until the last minute to do this!

Email: StyleExpert@apa.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APAStyle/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/apa_style

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/officialapastyle/

Comprehensive guides for:

•  MLA Citations 
  (Based on the MLA Handbook, 2016)
• APA Citations (6th ed.)
  (Based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2010)
• APA 7 Citations 
  (Based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2020)
• CMOS Citations 
  (Based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 2017)

Your instructor shall tell you which citation style you should use or check your course syllabus!

Each guide instructs you how to format your research papers and how to cite sources you use to support your research.

Note: Quick and Tech Guides can be found on the library's home page under Research Help.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab is another very helpful resource to learn how to work with APA style.

Here is their APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition).

Here's a link to their General APA FAQ's.

Note: If you use Citation Machine to generate your citation, you are still responsible for your citation to be correct!

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