APA Style Resources

Please note: the deadline has passed for the free access to the APA Style Manual. that was available during the early part of the pandemic. The full style manual is not available online via site license to universities, and therefore we do not have online access via our collections. While we have print copies of the style manual, they are not available to circulate out of our reference collections. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition (2020) is available for individual print purchase from all major booksellers. See other sources of information on APA style (such as APA Style Blog or  OWL at Purdue) in other areas of this APA Style page. Information on OWL is in the box to the left of this screen.

Please see other useful APA style resources such as the APA Style page to see if what you need is there. It's a wealth of style info, with examples for references:

https://apastyle.apa.org/

Another useful online resource for APA style is  OWL at Purdue or you may want to simply search Google by specific question re, APA style..

For a one page APA-published guide on how to cite a journal article, a book or a book chapter, just go to: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-guide.pdf

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Information on 7th edition style: As of October, 2019, APA Style 7th edition (with many changes) has been released, and is now available at some of the reference/reserve desks at the Libraries.The full title of the APA style manual is: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.  Please see available copies at: http://bit.ly/37rWzJp. Please check to see if you should be using 7th edition, or if you may continue (for various projects and publications) using the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. There is no electronic version of the current (6th or 7th ed.) style manual available in the Rutgers libraries. The Publication Manual is available in paper or e-version for individual purchase as well from APA or other vendors. Citation managers, such as EndNote, RefWorks and others will be incorporating the new 7th edition material, but that may also not widely available yet.

Some suggested links to more information about APA 7th edition:

The following APA sites have a lot of information that's included in the 7th edition of the Publication Manual...including information on writing and formatting papers (beyond just how to format citations):

Here is a brief tutorial about APA 7th edition:

https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/tutorials-webinars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOVZp8m0PCM

and a longer video about the new 7th edition and how it differs from the 6th:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOVZp8m0PCM&feature=youtu.be

Also, see the information on using the OWL at Purdue; many use this for examples of 7th edition style, very useful.

For those still using the 6th edition:

Some are in reference stacks, some not, most under call number BF76.

For comprehensive information about APA style, and to contact APA with tricky questions, please go to the APA style blog at:

http://www.apastyle.org 

To get quick assistance with your detailed questions from APA's style experts, you can email them directly from the blog. In addition to the blog,  APA Style is also on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/APAStyle and Twitter https://twitter.com/APA_Style.

DOIs-now required by APA style

Use of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is now preferred when using APA style. DOIs can be found on many articles, and in many indexing sources. If no DOI is available for an individual article, try searching "CrossRef" with the known article information here: (http://www.crossref.org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/guestquery/ ) or by using the CrossRef Metadata Search. Most publishers have now assigned DOIs to articles even from the distant past. Tip: Always cut and paste DOIs for best results.

All of the popular citation managers offer APA Style as a format. If you use a citation manager such as RefWorks, Zotero, or EndNote in your research work at Rutgers, you will see APA Style represented. Those citation management tools will format the citations and produce bibliographies in APA style. Zotero is open source. Endnote is popular at Rutgers and free to access at Rutgers via subscription. If you have questions about Endnote, please visit Ask A Librarian.or the contacts on the "Citation Management page.