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Basics of APA Style

Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style
This tutorial is designed for writers new to APA Style. Learn the basics of seventh edition APA Style, including paper elements, format, and organization; academic writing style; grammar and usage; bias-free language; mechanics of style; tables and figures; in-text citations, paraphrasing, and quotations; and reference list format and order.

Citing Resources

Proper citation is important for all scholarly work. Scholarly work in psychology should adhere to style guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association (APA). The following guides are a good place to start when formatting research papers or creating bibliographies.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
The definitive resource for properly using APA style. Available in print only.
Concise Guide to APA Style, 7th ed.
The official APA style guide for students. Designed specifically for undergraduate writing, it provides complete guidance for new writers on effective, clear, and inclusive scholarly communication and the essentials of formatting papers and other course assignments.
APA Style Overview (SPARK)
An excellent online resource from SPARK (Student Papers & Academic Research Kit) that provides a range of examples on how to cite different sources in APA.
APA - Purdue OWL
An online guide to using APA style.
APA Style
From the American Psychological Association. Tabs link to: Style and Grammar Guidelines, Instructional Aids and the APA Style Blog.
APA Style: Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS)
Guidelines on what information should be included when reporting quantitative, qualitative or mixed-method research in all manuscript sections

Citing Your Work
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Short Guide to Writing about Psychology by Dana S. Dunn
Call Number: BF 76.8 D86 2011 (Scott Stacks)
Publication Date: 2011
This concise guide helps readers master the skills and conventions they need to write well in psychology. It takes readers step-by-step through the writing process. In addition, it presents thorough discussions of researching psychological literature, focusing on online and database research, and presenting those findings in written and oral formats. Special attention is given to interpreting and reporting the results of statistical tests, as well as preparing data displays in tables and figures.
Effective Writing in Psychology by Agatha M. Beins; Bernard C. Beins
Call Number: BF 76.7 B45 2021 (Scott Stacks)
Publication Date: 2020
Writing Papers in Psychology by Ralph L. Rosnow; Mimi Rosnow
Call Number: BF 76.7 R67 2012 (Scott Stacks)
Writing Papers in Psychology offers you frameworks, tips, guidelines, and sample illustrations for writing research reports or literature reviews that must conform to style recommendations of the American Psychological Association. It also is designed to cultivate your organizing, literature retrieval, critical reasoning, and communication skills under deadlines. For more than a decade, this brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use manual has helped thousands of students in psychology and related fields with the task of writing term papers and reports.
Evaluating, Doing and Writing Research in Psychology by Philip Bell; Phillip James Staines; Joel Michell
Call Number: Online
Evaluating, Doing and Writing Research in Psychology is a thoroughly revised and expanded co-edition of the highly regarded Reasoning and Argument in Psychology. It represents a comprehensive textbook for all undergraduates in psychology who need to undertake empirical research, taking them step-by-step through the process. In particular, it offers the a range of study skills enabling the student to understand the complex processes involved with psychological research, not really covered in other texts.
The Psychology Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide by Jill M. Scott; Gregory M. Scott; Stephen M. Garrison
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018

Academic Writing Guide
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