Citations: APA

Welcome to the APA Subject Guide. Here you will find resources and documents that help you formulate APA style citations.

What is APA? APA style was created by the American Psychological Association. It is a set of guidelines used to properly cite sources in research papers to avoid plagiarism.

What Needs to be Cited? In APA, information from sources that you have paraphrased, quoted, or otherwise used to write your research paper must be referred to in two places:

1. In-text citations are a short form of APA citation used in your research paper, with the author’s last name and the date of publication enclosed in parenthesis, that refers a reader to bibliographic information in your Reference List.
2. References in the Reference List are full APA citations, which means they include all the bibliographic information needed for a reader to retrieve the sources your information comes from, in an alphabetical list that appears at the end of your research paper.