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Citation and formatting assistance for research papers written in APA Style.
(Author, Year, Location)
(Abel, 2015, p. 10)
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 174
(Author, Author, Author, Author, & Author, Date, Location)
Five authors or less should all be cited in the parentheses. They should all remain in the order that they appear on the title page.
“Test anxiety strongly correlated with the perceived imbalance between efforts spent and rewards received” (Hahn, Kropp, Kirschstein, Rucker & Muller-Hilke, 2017, p. 1).
If you cite it another time, you can use the first author, et al.
"Test anxiety is higher before oral than before written exams" (Hahn et al., 2017, p. 9).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 175
(Author, et al., date, location)
(Franco, et al, 2015, p. 12).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 175
(Corporate Author, date, location)
(Pew Research Center, 2015, para. 4)
(American Psychological Association [APA], 2016).
(APA, 2016).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 176
(Title, date, location)
(Bipolar, 2015, p. 17).
(Merck, 2016, p. 342)
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 176-177
Zika virus prevention may include vaccination (Lowy, 2015), pesticide use (Pepin & Penn, 2017), or elimination of standing water (Likas, et al, 2016).
Scientists agree that prevention is the key to eliminating the Zika virus (Likas, et al, 2016; Lowy, 2015; Pepin & Penn, 2017).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, pp. 175 & 177-178
(Name, personal communication, date)
(J. Bond, personal communication, April 1, 2010).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 179
(as cited in Author, date, location)
Ben Franklin wrote that “It was in everyone’s interest to be virtuous if he wished to be happy in this world,” (as cited in Dillon, 2009, p. 41).
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that 23.5% of the 511 officers were killed while making an arrest (as cited in Evans, 2016, p. 79).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 178
The pay gap between men and women is less among ages 25-34 (Brown, A., 2017, para. 3)
The pay gap between men and women is is narrowing but still persists (Brown, A., 2017).
According to Brown, the pay gap between men and women aged 25-34 has decreased to 10% (2017, para. 3).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, p. 171
The Mongols had the resources to conquer much of Europe and Asia because “they enjoyed an unprecedented, and yet-to-be-repeated, 15-year run of bountiful rains and mild weather” (Smith, 2014, para. 2), yielding an abundance of resources.
New research by tree-ring scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and West Virginia University may have uncovered the reason why an obscure band of nomadic Mongol horsemen was able to sweep through much of Asia in a few meteoric decades 800 years ago, conquering everything in their path: They enjoyed an unprecedented, and yet-to-be-repeated, 15-year run of bountiful rains and mild weather on the normally cold and arid steppes (Smith, 2014, para. 2).
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, pages 92 and 170-172.
(Author, year, location)
Location:
(Torpey, 2015, p. 57)
(Torpey, 2017, Associate's degree, Table 1)
(Torpey, 2017, Bachelor's degree, para. 2)
(Torpey, 2017, para. 3)
For more information, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, pp. 171-172.