APA Style
https://apastyle.apa.org/
https://apastyle.apa.org/
I highly recommend visiting the American Psychological Association (APA) website for writing in APA style. I have selected certain links from their site below to highlight areas where students generally need to focus. There is much more on the APA.org website so do not confine yourself to what I have provided here.
Make sure to expand the headings below by clicking on the down arrow on the right side of this page.
In-Text Citations Checklist - https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/in-text-citation-checklist.pdf
Six Steps to Proper Citation Infographic - https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/six-steps-proper-citation.pdf
Author–Date Citation System - https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/author-date
Short Quotations (fewer than 40 words)
Effective teams can be difficult to describe because “high performance along one domain does not translate to high performance along another” (Ervin et al., 2018, p. 470).
Block Quotations (40 words or more)
Researchers have studied how people talk to themselves:
Inner speech is a paradoxical phenomenon. It is an experience that is central to many people’s everyday lives, and yet it presents considerable challenges to any effort to study it scientifically. Nevertheless, a wide range of methodologies and approaches have combined to shed light on the subjective experience of inner speech and its cognitive and neural underpinnings. (Alderson-Day & Fernyhough, 2015, p. 957)
Parenthetical citations (in parentheses)
Falsely balanced news coverage can distort the public’s perception of expert consensus on an issue (Koehler, 2016).
Narrative citations (author name in text and date in parentheses)
Koehler (2016) noted the dangers of falsely balanced news coverage. (most common)
In 2016, Koehler noted the dangers of falsely balanced news coverage. (less common)