APA Alert
*NOTICE* This guide is based upon the 6th edition of APA. The 7th edition APA guide can be found here.
Use this guide to find information about citing books, periodicals, newspapers, in text citations and electronic material from the 6th edition of the APA manual. The topics covered in this guide refer to the 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual. There are additional types of sources that you might be interested in citing, such as personal interviews and correspondence. For those sources we recommend that you refer to the APA Publication Manual. For the most up to date information, you can also refer to the APA Style website.
CAUTION! We make mistakes too! We do our very best to make the APA guide 100% accurate, but you are responsible for your work. Please check your references against the APA manual.
Additional APA Resources
- Basics of APA style tutorialThis tutorial shows users how to structure and format your work, recommends ways to reduce bial in language, shows how to cite references in text and provides selected reference examples.
- OWLAn online writing center used by many major universities to demonstrate APA style formats
- APA Style.orgThe homepage of the American Psychological Association. This opens to the APA list of Quick Answers, which covers both References and Formatting.
- APA Style BlogCan't find something in the APA Manual? The APA Blog is a great resource to answer questions about format for which there are no examples in the APA Manual (for example, how do you cite Facebook?) or which need clarification.
APA Assistant
Try out this APA Assistant, developed by Miranda Orvis Kispert at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. It's a great tool to use to help you cite resources.
Click on the image, above, or here.
APA Manual-7th edition
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: REF WZ 345 P976 2020ISBN: 9781433832178Publication Date: 2019
APA Manual-6th Edition
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: REF WZ 345 P976 2010ISBN: 9781433805592Publication Date: 2009
