APA Style 7th Edition

APA Style is the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. It provides guidelines to cite sources and a format for research papers. The examples shown here are based on those in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7^th edition. 

Authors

1 -2 authors

With 1 or 2 authors, list all authors in the full citation on the References page.  

With 1 or 2 authors, follow these examples for in-text citations:

In-Text Citation: Paraphrase

In-Tex Citationt: Direct Quote

3-20 authors

With 3-20 authors, list all authors in the full citation on the References page.

With more than 20 authors list the first 19 authors’ names, insert an ellipsis (...) (but no ampersand), and then add the final author’s name. Follow these examples for in-text citations:

In-Text Citation: Paraphrase

In-Text Citation: Direct Quote

Citing multiple works with similar groups of authors​:

Avoid ambiguity by writing out more names.   

Example:  

Terracciano, Abdel-Khalek, Adam, Adamovova (2019)

Terracciano, Abdel-Khalek, Ruiz, Stanton (2019)

In-Text Citation: Paraphrase

In-Text Citation: Direct Quote

Corporate author:

Sometimes a corporate entity is the author of your resource.

Example:

In-Text Citation: Paraphrase

In-Text Citation: Direct Quote

Direct Quotation

If you quote directly use the exact words from your source, use quotation marks and cite the page in the in-text citation.

Paraphrase

If you paraphrase (use your own words to express the author's ideas), do not use quotation marks.  You are not required to use the page number in the in-text citation.