The APA site has useful examples and tutorials on how to cite your sources and how to format your paper. The Purdue OWL APA Style Guide provides helpful instructions on formatting in APA. The tutors at the Mizzou Writing Center can give you assistance on your writing as well as your references.
Copies of the APA Publication Manual book are available at the Health Sciences Library, Ellis Library, and the Journalism Library (see link below).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Ed.In-text citations are the citations within your paper. Each of your in-text citations will have a corresponding reference in the References section at the end of your paper. Below are basic examples for journal articles. For more examples and details, see the APA Publication Manual or the Perdue OWL site.
Basic format: (Author, Year)
(Bursztyn, 2019)
(Farhadian et al., 2021)
Basic format: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy
Bursztyn, M. (2019). Daytime napping masks dipping. American Journal of Hypertension, 32(7),e1. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajh/hpz051.
Farhadian, N., Khazaie, H., Nami, M., Khazaie, S. (2021). The role of daytime napping in declarative memory performance: A systematic review. Sleep Medicine, 84,134-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2021.05.019
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