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APA Citation Style (7th edition)

An Introduction to using APA Citation Style (7th Edition)

Parts of a Citation

When creating a citation you are answering 4 questions: 

A. AUTHOR: Who created this resource? a single Author? More than one author? An organization?

B. DATE: When was this resource created? Date: details included depend on the resource e.g. (year), (year, month, date).

C. TITLE: What is this resource called? Title!

D. SOURCE: Where does this resource come from (or, where can my reader find this resource)? This can include the title of a larger work that your resource is part of (like one story from an anthology or one article from a journal) Publisher, and DOI or URL.

Examples

APA Citation Style

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, 2019

Author(s) Date Title (book, article or webpage) Source (publisher, journal title, site name, DOI or URL) 


Book:

Proulx, A.  (2022). Fen, bog & swamp: A short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis. Sribner. 


Journal article from a library database:

McKinless, E.  (2020). Impact of stress on nurses working in the district nursing service.  British Journal of

_____Community Nursing, 25(11), 555-561.  https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.11.555


Webpage within a website:

Canadian Cancer Society.  (2013, April 14). Cancer research. http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information

_____/cancer-101/cancerresearch/?region=on