Information that can help you with your APA style.
How to get your reference page in order with helpful examples and other resources.
Learn how to create in-text citation.
Helpful tips to easily format your paper in APA style.
The citation style known as APA is published by The American Psychogical Association. This citation style is used in the following disciplines: business, economics, health sciences, and social sciences.
The purpose of a citation style is to keep the information of the resources you use uniform for the reader. Using in-text citations within a piece of writing allows the reader to follow your orginal sources and make those connections between your writing and the citations. The reader will obtain all the information about your sources on the "References" page that will be at the end of your paper.
You must use in-text citations when you paraphrase, use a direct quotation, use part of a quotation, use an argument, use an image, use a piece of data etc., within your paper. You must use a citation if the idea that you are using in your paper wasn't your original idea. As a scholar, you need to show the reader through citations that you are not plagiarizing.
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