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APA Referencing Guide

This online guide is an abridged version of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020a) 7th edition manual.

 

This is an example of a table in an appendix. It was the first appendix cited in the body of your assignment, which is why it is labelled Appendix A. You would refer the reader to this appendix by using a narrative citation, as seen Appendix A, or a parenthetical citation (see Appendix A).

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An appendix displaying a single table. For a screen-reader friendly version please reach out to the library team.

 


Please visit the formatting page for information on headings in your appendix.

For more information on Appendices please see page 53 of our referencing guide.

 

This is an example of multiple tables in an appendix. It was the second appendix cited in the body of your assignment, which is why it is labelled Appendix B. You would refer the reader to this appendix by using the table numbers either in narrative, as seen Table B1, or a parenthetically (see Table B2).

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An appendix displaying multiple tables. For a screen-reader friendly version please reach out to the library team.

 


Please visit the formatting page for information on headings in your appendix.

For more information on Appendices please see page 53 of our referencing guide.

 

This is an example of text in an appendix. Even though it runs over two pages, the information belongs to one appendix. It was the third appendix cited in the body of your assignment, which is why it is labelled Appendix C. You would refer the reader to this appendix by using a narrative citation, as seen Appendix C, or a parenthetical citation (see Appendix C).

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An appendix displaying text. For a screen-reader friendly version please reach out to the library team.

 


Please visit the formatting page for information on headings in your appendix.

For more information on Appendices please see page 53 of our referencing guide.

 

This is an example of a figure in an appendix. It was the fourth appendix cited in the body of your assignment, which is why it is labelled Appendix D. You would refer the reader to this appendix by using a narrative citation, as seen Appendix D, or a parenthetical citation (see Appendix D).

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An appendix displaying a single figure. For a screen-reader friendly version please reach out to the library team.

 


Please visit the formatting page for information on headings in your appendix.

For more information on Appendices please see page 53 of our referencing guide.

 

This is an example of multiple figures in an appendix. It was the fifth appendix cited in the body of your assignment, which is why it is labelled Appendix E. You would refer the reader to this appendix by using the figure numbers either in narrative, as seen Figure E2, or a parenthetically (see Figure E4). Each figure must be referred to in the body of your assignment.

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An appendix displaying multiple figures. For a screen-reader friendly version please reach out to the library team.

 


Please visit the formatting page for information on headings in your appendix.

For more information on Appendices please see page 53 of our referencing guide.

 

References

American Psychological Association. (n.d.-a). APA stylehttps://apastyle.apa.org/ 

American Psychological Association. (n.d.-b)Student sample paper with annotations. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/student-annotated.pdf

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

American Psychological Association. (2020b, October 21). Student paper setup guide. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/student-paper-setup-guide.pdf

American Psychological Association. (2021a, December). Sample Tables. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/sample-tables

American Psychological Association. (2021b, December). Table setup. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/tables

American Psychological Association. (2022a, July). Appropriate level of citation. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/appropriate-citation

American Psychological Association. (2022b, July). Elements of reference list entries. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/elements-list-entry

American Psychological Association. (2022c, July). Font. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/font

American Psychological Association. (2022d, July). Headings. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/headings

American Psychological Association. (2022e, July). Numbers expressed in numerals. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/numbers/numerals

American Psychological Association. (2022f, July). Numbers expressed in words. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/numbers/words

American Psychological Association. (2022g, July). Paragraph alignment and indentation. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/paragraph-format

American Psychological Association. (2022h, July). Paraphrasing. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/paraphrasing

American Psychological Association. (2022i, July). Quotations. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/quotations

American Psychological Association. (2022j, July). Sample papers. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/sample-papers

American Psychological Association. (2022k, July). Use of italics. APA Style.  https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/italics-quotations/italics

American Psychological Association. (2022l, August). Citing multiple works. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/multiple-works

American Psychological Association. (2023, March). About APA stylehttps://apastyle.apa.org/about-apa-style

McAdoo, T. (2023, April 7). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

Microsoft. (n.d.-a). Add a heading. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-heading-3eb8b917-56dc-4a17-891a-a026b2c790f2

Microsoft. (n.d.-b). Change marginshttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-margins-in-your-word-document-c95c1ea1-70b1-4dde-a1da-f5aa2042c829

Microsoft. (n.d.-c). Create a hanging indent. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-hanging-indent-7bdfb86a-c714-41a8-ac7a-3782a91ccad5

Microsoft. (n.d.-d). Double-space the lines in a document. https://bit.ly/3GRcExu

PSI CHI. (2022, April 5). Webinar: So you need to write a literature review/key tasks & how to accomplish them 03/16/2022 [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/LWMf-FYOpJ8