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APA Style 7th Edition: Citing Your Sources

Provide guidance on APA format style based on the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual.

Standard Format

Data Sets
			Where
Who	When	What	Publisher	DOI or URL
Author, A. A. & Author, B. B. Name of Group	(year). (range of years).	Title of data set (Version #) [Data set]. Title of data set [Unpublished raw data]. [Description of untitled data set] [Unpublished raw data].	Publisher Name. Source of Unpublished Data.	https://doi.org/xxxx.... https://xxxx... Retrieved Month date, year, from https://xxxx

Adapted from American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

Formatting Rules

Provide a retrieval date only if the data set is designated to change over time
Date for published data is the year of publication
Date for unpublished data is the year(s) of collection
If version number exists, include in parentheses after the title

Various Examples

Data Set	Cohen, M. A., & Miller, T. R. (1991). Cost of mental health care for victims of crime in the United States (ICPSR 6581, Version V1) [Data set]. ICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06581.v1
Unpublished raw data	Evans, S. K. (2014). [Personnel survey] [Unpublished raw data]. University of Southern California.

See Ch. 10 pp. 313-352 of APA Manual for more examples and formatting rules