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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

Click on the categories below to see what types of information is included for that reference component for Reports and Grey Literature

Basic Format:
Who = Author (When = year). What = Title of work Where = Publisher Information and DOI or URL

Author Surname, A. A., & Author Surname, B. B.

Name of Group.

Author, A. A. [username]

Username.

(year).

(year, Month date).

Title of report: Use sentence case

Title of report (Report No. #).

Title of grey literature [Description].

Publisher Name.

https://doi.org/xxxx....

https://xxx....

Formatting Rules

  • Italicize report titles
  • Utilize sentence case for report titles:
    • First word of the title and first word of the subtitle capitalized
    • Capitalize proper nouns
    • Every other word is lower case
  • Shorten long URLs or DOIs: When a DOI or URL is long or complex, you may use shortDOIs or shortened URLs if desired. Use the shortDOI service provided by the International DOI Foundation (https://shortdoi.org/) to create shortDOI.

Examples

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Nelson, G., & Goon, X. J. (2019). Industry Surveys: Global automobile manufacturers. CFRA. http://bit.ly/2vbZVCu
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2018). Maternal, infant, and child health. Healthy People 2020. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health/objectives
Paschall, P. (2013). Movement analysis: The impact of the 2012 presidential election on the LGBT policy agenda. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/move_analyisis_2012_elec_obama.pdf.
National Institute of Mental Health. (1990). Clinical training in serious mental illness (DHHS Publication No. ADM 90-1679). U.S. Government Printing Office
Furst, M., & DeMillo, R. A. (2006). Creating symphonic-thinking computer science graduates for an increasingly competitive global environment [White paper]. Georgia Tech College of Computing website: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/Threads%20Whitepaper.pdf