APA quick guides
The American Psychological Association, the authors of the APA Publication Manual, have a variety of useful instructional aids on their website including tutorials and webinars, handouts and guides, and sample papers.
Note: the APA Publication Manual provides guidance to publishing that may not be the same as the format required in your course so you should always follow your assignment instructions.
Here are links to some handouts that are likely to be relevant to your study at Massey.
- In-text citations (paraphrases and quotations)
- Secondary sources
- Classroom or intranet sources
- Personal communications
- APA Style Guide common reference examples
- APA Style Guide for journal articles, books, and edited book chapters
- Missing reference information
- Works included and excluded in a reference list
- APA style and MLA style comparison guide
- APA tutorials and webinars
Disclaimer
These pages are provided as a guide to proper referencing. Your course, department, school, or institute may prescribe specific conventions, and their recommendations supersede these instructions. If you have questions not covered here, check in the style guide listed above, ask your course coordinator, or ask at Academic Q+A.