APA Style Guide

APA Style provides a foundation for effective scholarly communication because it helps writers present their ideas in a clear, precise, and inclusive manner.

This page is your gateway to getting started with APA Style, the writing style that helps you communicate clearly, precisely, and inclusively.

Generally, APA style uses the author and the year of publication to give credit to the particular study or source in sentences that contain a quote, a paraphrase, or a summary with information from the source.

In this guide, students and researchers can learn the basics of creating a properly formatted research paper according to APA guidelines.

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APA Style is widely used by students, researchers, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences. This citation guide outlines the most important citation guidelines from the 7th edition APA Publication Manual (2020).

APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 7th edition of the APA manual, offers examples of the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.Quick Introduction to the Purdue OWL

Review the fundamentals of APA format and learn to cite several different source types using our detailed citation examples.

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