APA Style
APA is a citation method that uses author/year in the body of the text and works cited information at the end of the paper.
Note: A new version (7th edition) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association was published in October 2019. This guide is based on the 6th edition of the manual. Updates coming soon! Always check with your professor/instructor to make sure you are using the correct citation style.
In the Works Cited section, APA places date information second after the author's name(s) or after the title if there isn't an author.
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Citation Style Guides: Quoting and ParaphrasingCopying an entire paper, or even words or ideas from a source and presenting this as your own work is called plagiarism and is a major form of academic dishonesty.
To ensure that you aren't plagiarizing, you need to give credit to the creators of the original ideas, by quoting or paraphrasing those ideas, and then citing the original source.
Why do I need to cite?
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To indicate the sources that influenced and formed your conclusions.
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To credit the work of others.
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To indicate sources of specific information such as data that is not commonly known.
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To indicate the sources that are paraphrased or quoted.
See the APA Publication Manual (6th ed.) Section 6, p.169 "When to Cite" for further explanation.
APA Publication Manual 6th ed.
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .A51 2020Publication Date: 2019 (7th ed.) -
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
by Publication Date: 2010 (6th ed.)
