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APA Style Guide, 7th ed.

This guide provides tips and examples for APA style formatting of papers and citations.

In This Guide

This page gives you some general information about the importance of citation, formatting your paper, links to sample References pages and full APA style papers. You can also see specific APA citation examples in the References List section.

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A Basic Overview of APA Style

References for this Guide

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). APA Style Blog. Retrieved from https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/website/

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). About APA style. Retrieved from https://www.apastyle.org/about-apa-style

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Basics of seventh edition APA style tutorial. Retrieved from https://extras.apa.org/apastyle/basics-7e/