Library: APA Style Guide: Getting Started

How Does APA Style Apply to Me?

The APA style manual will govern a number of aspects of your writing, including:

How you credit sources
How you format your paper
How you organize your paper

To help you learn APA style, this guide contains information on each of these three elements.

REMEMBER: This help guide is intended to familiarize students with the basics of APA style and formatting; it is by no means a comprehensive resource. For more information on APA style, please refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, or browse through some of the following resources:

The Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style Guide
This resource, revised according the 7th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.
APA Supplemental Materials
The materials are intended as supplementary material to the publication of the American Psychological Associations, Sixth Edition. Due to space and printing limitations, they are referenced from but not printed in the actual Manual.
The Owl at Purdue APA FAQs
The following FAQs address issues in APA citation and/or formatting. The entries in this section are based on frequently asked questions received by our OWL Mail Tutors.
Learning APA Style
Contains all the resources you might need to learn APA style - online courses and tutorials, blogs, FAQs, and more!