APA Citation

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References

In APA style, the list of detailed information about your sources at the end of your paper is called “References." Generally, your professors will call sources “references” instead "citations." The core elements of a APA style are as follows:

APA Core Elements

  • Author.
  • (Date).
  • Title.
  • Source.

Examples

Print Book

Mancini, C. (2008). Racism in Harper Lee’s To kill a mockingbird. Greenhaven Press.

Electronic Book

Schreiber, B. (2019). Music is power : Popular songs, social Justice, and the will to change. Rutgers University Press.

Web page

Hollmichel, S. (2013, April 25). The reading brain: Differences between digital and print. So Many Books. https://somanybooksblog.com/2013/04/25/the-reading-brain-differences-between-digital-and-print/

Academic Journal Article

Grauer, J., Löwen, H., & Liebchen, B. (2020). Strategic spatiotemporal vaccine distribution increases the survival rate in an infectious disease like Covid-19. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–10. https://doi-org.whccd.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78447-3

More APA resources

For more examples of APA style citations, visit Excelsior OWL. Links to an external site.

Citations

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