APA Citation and Format

APA Style, 7th edition

The Introduction to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides a more detailed summary. 

These are the chapters with important changes for students and faculty:

• Paper Formatting (Chapter 2):  New student title page, simplified Running Head, and updated formats for Headings.
• Writing Style and Grammar (Chapter 4):  The manual now advises the pronoun “they” for a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
• Bias-Free Language (Chapter 5):  Updates guidelines for writing about “age, disability, gender, racial and ethnic identity, and sexual orientation.”
• Mechanics of Style (Chapter 6): Minor changes to punctuation, spacing, and capitalization.
• Tables and Figures (Chapter 7): Updated guidelines for presenting data in tables and figures.
• In-Text Citations (Chapter 8):   All sources with three or more authors are now attributed using the name of the first author followed by “et al.”
• Reference List (Chapter 9): New guidelines for using DOIs and URLs