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APA Citations (7th ed.)

This guide will help you learn how to properly cite sources in APA style and how to avoid plagiarism.

When do I need to cite?

To avoid plagiarism, provide appropriate credit to the source whenever you:

  • Paraphrase the ideas of others
  • Directly quote the words of others
  • Refer to data or data sets
  • Reprint or adapt a table or figure, even images from teh internet that are free or licensed in the Creative Commons
  • Reprint a long text passage or commercially copyrighted test item

Reference List and In-text Citation Examples

Note. The four elements of a reference list entry include the author (in purple), the date (in blue), the title (in yellow), and the source (in green). The in-text citations that correspond to this reference include the last name of the author and year of publication, which match the information in the reference list entry.