General Resources
- APA Sample PaperA sample paper provided by APA. For every style rule, there is a comment highlighted in the paper that tells you where to find the discussion of the rule in the APA Style Manual.
- APA Style Bloghe 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.
- Academic Writer This link opens in a new windowAcademic Writer (formerly APA Style CENTRAL) combines learning and teaching tools, writing and content processing technology, and full integration of APA's Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Slated to transition to 7th edition updates in August 2020.
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Citation Managers
Web-based citation managers that allow you to import references from text files, web sites or online databases.
- RefworksNo cost for USC students, faculty and staff. RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that helps you collect, manage and organize citations of journal articles, books and other materials and allows you to create in-text citations and reference lists in APA.
- MendeleyAvailable on the web and software can be downloaded to laptop/desktop, organize references by folders and tags, creates bibliographies and has a plug-in for creating in-text citations, has dedicated apps for mobile devices.
- ZoteroZotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.