HD Thesis Course Guide: APA Formatting

The APA Style Blog is the official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. It's run by a group of experts who work with APA Style every day. We publish weekly posts to talk about what we love—writing, publishing, and APA Style. We explore what APA Style is and how it works in a variety of areas, including reference citations of every sort, grammar and usage, the publication process, and social media. Occasionally we feature guest bloggers who write about more technical issues.

Answers to common questions about APA formatting.

Gain a more comprehensive understanding of the basics of APA Style by using these APA resources

One of the most comprehensive online guides for APA Style. This tutorial explains how to format your paper, how to use in-text citations, how to build your reference list, and how to make Annotated Bibliographies. It includes a SAMPLE PAPER to illustrate proper format.

Step-by-step instructions for citing books, journals articles, book chapters, and more. It has detailed illustrations showing where to find each element needed for your citations

This video shows how to collect references so that bibliographies can be automatically generated in Word 2010. The video is provided by Partners in Learning Network.

This video demonstrates how to make table of contents in Microsoft Word 2010 and also shows how to make table of figures in Microsoft Word 2010.

This YouTube video by college writing instructor and consultant David Peak takes you through the steps of formatting a paper in APA style using Microsoft Word software

Information about in-text citations, references, format, and style. This site also offers tips about how to write an Annotated Bibliography with examples of annotation writing styles.

This guide focuses on the reference list and in-text citations. It includes many examples with an option to view details, as well as a separate guide on Annotated Bibliographies.

Table provides formatting for several scenarios regarding reference format for websites. Resource provided by APA, copyright 2010.

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Automated citation creator.