Frequently Asked Questions About Sixth Edition APA Style^®

The seventh edition of the Publication Manual has the most current guidelines for APA Style.

The Style and Grammar Guidelines page on the APA Style website has resources for learning the new seventh edition style. 

We have archived the sixth edition frequently asked questions for authors, editors, and students working on papers in the previous style. We will keep this archive available until further notice.

• Do you have any sample papers that I can view?
• I can't find the example reference I need in the Publication Manual. What should I do?
• How does the APA Style^® Guide to Electronic References, Sixth Edition, differ from the chapters on references in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association?

• Book review
• Newspaper article
• References within parentheses
• Book with no author or editor
• E-mail communications from individuals
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Digital object identifier, or DOI
• Retrieval dates
• Page numbers
• Bibliography
• Website
• Web page with no author
• Website material with no author, year, and page numbers
• Interview
• Source in another source
• Bible or classic works

• Comma
• Hyphen for compound words
• Colon
• Slash mark
• Brackets
• Semicolon
• Double quotation marks
• Parentheses

• Subject and verb agreement
• Dangling modifiers
• Verbs
• Linguistic devices
• Spelling
• Redundancy
• Numbers
• Abbreviations
• Subjects and participants

• Running head

• Guidelines for Nonhandicapping Language in APA Journals