APA Style Blog

Welcome to 2023, APA Stylers!

By A. Adams

January 23, 2023

Thank you for making the APA Style website your go-to source for all things APA Style!

How to cite your own translations

By A. Adams

November 21, 2022

If you translate a passage from one language into another on your own in your paper, your translation is considered a paraphrase, not a direct quotation.

Happy Halloween!

By Timothy McAdoo

October 31, 2022

Do you have questions about APA Style? Don’t be afraid to ask!

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Fall 2022 resources for students of APA Style

By Chelsea Lee

October 24, 2022

This post includes up-to-date student-friendly instructional resources about APA Style for easy reference.

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New! Quizzes in the Mastering APA Style Student Workbook

By Chelsea Lee

September 14, 2022

By using this interactive workbook in conjunction with their APA Style manual, students of APA Style will soon be on their way to becoming APA Style experts!

How to cite an untitled music album reference

By A. Adams

July 13, 2022

Before you attempt to create a reference list entry for a music album in your paper, fact-check the recording artist or group’s discography to ensure the title of the album—or the lack of one—is accurate.

How to capitalize medication names

By Hannah Greenbaum

June 15, 2022

This blog post provides information on the APA Style capitalization guidelines for writing about medications.

Key takeaways from the Psi Chi webinar So You Need to Write a Literature Review

By Hannah Greenbaum and Chelsea Lee

April 19, 2022

This blog post describes key tasks in writing an effective literature review and provides strategies for approaching those tasks.

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How to cite a work with a nonrecoverable source

By A. Adams

March 16, 2022

In most cases, nonrecoverable sources such as personal emails, nonarchived social media livestreams (or deleted and unarchived social media posts), classroom lectures, unrecorded webinars or presentations, and intranet sources should be cited only in the text as personal communications.