African American and African Studies: APA Citation Guide (7th Edition)

Purdue OWL resources provide guidelines on how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style and formatting guidelines. This section contains resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.

The APA Style website provides additional resources for writers to present their ideas in a clear, precise, and effective scholarly communication.

This tutorial is adapted from the APA citation style and it is designed to help writers with the basics of APA tools for writing effectively following seventh edition guidelines. This tutorial covers paper elements, format, and organization; academic writing styles; grammar and usage; in-text citations, paraphrasing, and quotations; tables and figures, reference list format, etc. Click the link above for more details

In-text citations have two formats: Parenthetical and Narrative.
In parenthetical citations, the author name and publication date appear in parentheses.
In narrative citations, the author name is incorporated into the text as part of the sentence and the year follows in parentheses.Click the link above for more details.