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APA Tutorials

Teach yourself APA (or brush up on your skills) with these videos and tutorials!

Watch these videos first:

Introduction to Citation Styles: APA 7th edition
This 3 minute video from CSUDH Library introduces the purpose and basic conventions of citing sources in-text and in a reference list using the American Psychological Association (APA) Style, 7th edition, 2019.
The Basics of APA In-text Citations (7th edition)
This 3 minute video from Scribbr covers what to include in an APA in-text citation, where to place it in a sentence, and how to deal with missing information.

And now try the citation anatomy activity below.

Test your skills.

Can you solve the citation puzzle?

APA Citation Anatomy Activity
a drag n' drop exercise to teach you how to identify parts of a work that are needed in a citation

APA Tools

Use the below sites to help you format your citations correctly.

NOTE: APA uses sentence-style capitalization which is difficult for computer-generated citations to do correctly. Please double-check any citation that you use.

APA Style Blog
Search the blog's archives for your specific questions.
BibMe.org
Create citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard.
Purdue OWL: APA
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue is an excellent starting place for all sorts of citation questions.