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APA Style Guides

APA is the style manual of choice for the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields. Updated in 2020, there are two key books in the Ivy Tech Lake County libraries.  See below the call number (location) for each book. First is the main 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Second image is the Concise Guide to APA Style, designed for undergraduate student writing.

GUIDES:  For examples how to cite the most common source types:  magazines, academic journals, books (including e-books), websites. or newspapers, begin by clicking on the specially created local Lake County guide APA SHORT SHEET,  shown in the left side below, produced in collaboration between English professor Christine Weatherby, and Library Director Barbara Minich.  For more detail and more source types, see the four-page APA Citation Style Tip Sheet below it.

APA Short Sheet

Covering the five most common source types:  books, magazines, academic journals, websites, newspapers, it shows by color coding and text boxes, how to do in-text citations and References page for each type.

APA Citation Style Tip Sheet

The University of Southern Indiana library guide shows by source types how to do in-text citations and reference pages

Noodletools Citation Guide

By Ivy Tech Northeast Library this makes citing sources easier & shows where to find information needed to cite sources.

APA Publication Manual

      

              808.06 APA 2020

Sample Student paper

A student paper with excerpts in basic APA style. Source:  Harker, D (2020). Documenting Sources in APA Style, 2020 Update. Bedford/St. Martin's.

Sample References page

A brief view of a couple of citations set up in the last part of a research paper, the References page, with instructions.

APA Formatting using Microsoft Word

This guide shows how to do use Microsoft WORD  for setting page numbers on a research paper document, how to make the title page, how to select the font style and size, double spacing, and margin settings

APA Citations using Microsoft Word

Above is a guide to using Microsoft Word to save an article's citation information.

In-Text Citations: how to use

SIGNAL PHRASES:  They guide the reader to where the research writer has found the information.  The source author's last name is given, with the year in parentheses, such as:

             As Smith (2004) noted.....              According to Stevens (2002)......                                                                                                                                                                                                 BLOCK QUOTATION:  This is a direct quote from your source - 40 words or more.  It is indented and does not need quotation marks. 

APA Chart Overview - by OWL

A one-page Purdue gold chart for an APA paper

APA 7th edition - major changes from 6th ed.

Punctuation and layout

  • Titles are no longer needed in the header. This includes the Running Head on the title page. Page numbers are still needed in the upper right corner of every page. 
  • The 7th edition adds additional fonts: Calibri size 11pt, Arial 11pt, Lucida Sans Unicode 10pt, and Georgia 11pt , plus Times New Roman 12pt.

Citations

  • In-text citation is the author's name(s) followed by the year of publication.
  • Page numbers are only included IF there is a direct quotation from the source.
  • With in-text citations, any reference with more than three authors can now be shortened to the first author and the words 'et al'.

Reference Page

  • Website URLs no longer need to be preceded with “Retrieved from” unless there is also a retrieval date.
  • Journal DOIs are displayed as a doi.org URL instead of with the “DOI:” prefix.
  • The publisher location is no longer required for books, etc
  • Up to 20 authors can now be included in a reference list entry before needing to omit others with an ellipsis.

APA Concise Guide. 7th ed

    

CALL NUMBER:  808.0661 Con 2020