APA Style

For the most up-to-date information, resources, and templates related to the 7th edition of the APA manual, SWC community members can visit the Library Group in Populi.

Below you will find a variety of resources to aid you in your research and writing. These links are intended to serve as a helpful reference for your studies. Please note that if you have any further questions regarding your citations, bibliographies, or other rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) format, to check the current print edition of the Publication Manual (available in the library), or ask your instructor.

APA Style:

www.apastyle.org

• Frequently Asked Questions About APA Style^®
• Quick Answers—References
• Quick Answers—Formatting
• Tutorial—The Basics of APA Style^®
• Tutorial—What’s New in the Sixth Edition
• Sample One-Experiment Paper

APA Style Blog:

blog.apastyle.org

• How to Cite a Speech in APA Style
• APA Style for Citing Interviews
• How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part I:
  General
• How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations
• How to Create a Reference for a YouTube Video

Purdue OWL:

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

• APA Writing Lab
• General Format
• APA Style Workshop
• Annotated Bibliographies
• Video: APA Formatting – The Basics
• Video: APA Formatting – Reference List Basics

Additional Resources:

• Online Citation Machine 

www.citationmachine.net
“Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is     to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to — because…
SOMEDAY THE INFORMATION THAT SOMEONE ELSE WANTS TO USE… WILL BE YOURS!”

• BibMe

www.bibme.org
“BibMe is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information for you. BibMe will then format the citation information and compile a bibliography according to the guidelines of the style manuals. If you prefer, you can enter your citation information manually. BibMe also features a citation guide that provides students with the style manuals’ guidelines for citing references.”

• Studymode

www.studymode.com/citation-generator/
“Studymode’s free and easy to use citation generator automatically creates bibliographies in the format you want, including APA, MLA and Chicago style. Whether you are citing from a website, book or even a magazine or journal, creating bibliographies has never been easier.”

• Zotero

www.zotero.org
“Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).”