APA’s free instructional aids will help you improve your APA Style skills. Access sample papers and templates, handouts and guides, and free tutorials and webinars—resources designed for students by APA Style experts in conjunction with university instructors and other community collaborators.
Please note that because the scope of what constitutes a student paper is broad and flexible and varies by course and academic institution, there are no formal requirements for the nature or contents of APA Style student papers. Students should follow the guidelines of their instructor, advisor, department, and/or institution when writing papers, and instructors, departments, and institutions are encouraged to adapt APA Style to fit their needs.
More instructional aids will be added to the website in the future. If you are an instructor and want to share an instructional aid you made with APA to potentially be featured on our website, please contact the APA Style team.
New to APA Style? Check out the APA Style for beginners page. Or, if you're making lesson plans for students, don’t miss our APA Style for teachers page.
Need more? Check out APA’s instructional product for teaching APA Style, the Mastering APA Style Student Workbook; request desk or exam copies of APA Style books for course adoption; or try out APA’s new institutional solution for full-text Publication Manual access, APA Style Manual.
Mastering APA Style Student Workbook, Seventh Edition
Do you need to improve your knowledge and application of seventh edition APA Style? Watch this short video to learn about the new Mastering APA Style Student Workbook, the official interactive guide to learning APA Style.
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The seventh edition Publication Manual, Concise Guide to APA Style, and Mastering APA Style Student Workbook are all available for course adoption.
- When instructors adopt an APA Style book for their course or workshop, they can request a free exam or desk copy of the work.
- Instructors who adopt the seventh edition of the Publication Manual or the Concise Guide to APA Style are also eligible to receive instructions on accessing ancillary instructional materials for teaching APA Style in the classroom.
Institutional access to the full-text Publication Manual is available through APA Style Manual. Get a quote or start a free trialopens in new window today!
