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This official profile is maintained by experts at the American Psychological Association. We share tips about how to format a paper, create APA Style references in seventh edition (#APA7), write with concise and bias-free language, and more.

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Are your students citing ChatGPT? Make it simple with APA Style’s four reference elements: author, date, title, and source.
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Happy Valentine's Day!

It would warm our hearts if you would read our latest blog post, which answers a few FAQs about idioms: When to cite them and how to format.

🔗 apastyle.apa.org/blog/idioms

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February 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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APAStyle tip:
🔹 Use quotation marks around a word or phrase when used "as an ironic comment, as slang, or as an invented or coined expression."
🔹 After the first use, don't use quotation marks when it appears later in the same paper.

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February 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Are you writing or editing an APA Style paper this week? What questions can we can help answer?

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February 11, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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The guidance in this #APAStyle FAQ comes from Section 9.44 of the Publication Manual (7th ed.): "Order of Works in the Reference List."

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APA Style FAQ Q: In a reference list, how do you order entries that begin with surnames including spaces (e.g., "van den Boomen" or "de Onís")? A: In the list, order references alphabetically, comparing the name of each first author letter by letter, disregarding spaces. Example: van den Boomen, C., … van der Kleij, S. W., … Vanderwal, T., … Van Overwalle, F., …
February 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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In our latest blog post, we outline two approaches to reporting significant p values in tables and figures.

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#Statistics #BehavioralStatistics #AcWri #APAStyleTables #APAStyleFigures #pValues
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February 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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#skybrarians: Do you link to #APAStyle pages (apastyle.apa.org) on your LibGuides?

If so:
❓ Do you link to the Style and Grammar subpages (apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...) or to blog posts (apastyle.apa.org/blog)?
❓ Can you link to the topics you need?
❓ What else would would be useful?

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February 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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This page is our hub for APA Style information useful for nursing students, educators, and professionals: apastyle.apa.org/nurses
👉 videos for nursing students
👉 a link to our YouTube playlist for nurses, and
👉 a link to example references for the following nursing-focused works:

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February 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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In our latest blog post, we outline two approaches to reporting significant p values in tables and figures.

🔗 apastyle.apa.org/blog/methods...

#Statistics #BehavioralStatistics #AcWri #APAStyleTables #APAStyleFigures #pValues
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February 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Happy #GroundhogDay 2026!

From our free Student Paper Checklist (Beginner's Version):

👉 "eliminate wordiness, redundancy, evasiveness, and circumlocution (i.e., writing in circles)."

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February 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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References for authored books include the author name(s), the year, the title, and the publisher's name. When a book has a DOI, include that as the last detail in the source element of the reference, after the publisher's name.

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APA Style Reference: Greenberg, L. S. (2025). On becoming emotion focused. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000466-000 Parenthetical citation: (Greenberg, 2025) Narrative citation: Greenberg (2025)
January 30, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Are your students citing ChatGPT? Make it simple with APA Style’s four reference elements: author, date, title, and source.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Other FAQs can be found in this highlight on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stories/high...

What are your #APAStyle FAQs?

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January 28, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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This FAQ is about punctuation in references. Each element of #APAStyle references (i.e., the author, date, title, and source) usually ends with a period.

👉 An exception is when the title element ends in a question mark, as in this example.

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APA Style FAQ Q: In a reference, if an article's title ends with a question mark, should you also include the period that usually ends the title element? A: Don't add a period. The question mark replaces the usual period. Example: Peng, D., Iqbal, Z., & Zentall, T. R. (2026). Ephemeral reward task: Why is it so difficult for pigeons to learn it? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 52(1), 9–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000397 (In the image, there is a circle drawing attention to the question mark that appears after the word "it" and before the beginning of the journal's title.)
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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#APAStyle references include four elements:
🔹 author
🔹 date
🔹 title
🔹 source

👉 Learn more: apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...

👉 Reference examples: apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...

#APA7 #APAreferences
January 22, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Our webinar about AI in academic writing is now available on our YouTube channel!

🔗 YouTube playlist: AI and APA Style
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Instructors: You still have time to register for our free webinar about "how the ubiquity of AI is impacting the teaching of academic writing and research." Please join us!

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January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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If you will be learning and using #APAStyle for the first time this semester, don't miss our free tutorial!

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Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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How do you cite Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech?

See our post on the #APAStyle blog.

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January 20, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Videos in our YouTube playlist for students provide strategies for learning and using APA Style in class papers.

Playlist:
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Librarians and writing centers:
Will you recommend APA Style videos to your students this semester?

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January 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Will you be learning or teaching APA Style in 2026?

📰 Subscribe to our free monthly newsletter for #APAStyle news, tips, and links to teaching resources.

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December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A source work that cannot be recovered by readers (e.g., an email, text, or direct message) should be cited as a #PersonalCommunication.

👉 "Use a personal communication citation only when a recoverable source is not available."

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January 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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When writing about writing (i.e., writing about letters, words, phrases, sentences, and so forth), careful formatting helps the reader understand your meaning. In this week's FAQ, we address the question of how to format letters or words (use quotation marks).

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APA Style FAQ: What formatting should I use when writing about letters or words? A: Use quotation marks "to refer to a letter, word, phrase, or sentence as a linguistic example or as itself." This guideline is from Publication Manual (7th ed.) Section 6.7. Examples: the letter "e" We highlighted the words "yes" and no." and The word "Monday" begins with the letter "M."
January 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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When creating a reference for a standard or guideline (e.g., OSHA), use the report template from Section 10.4 of the Publication Manual (7th ed.).

🔗 Examples: apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...

❓ What other examples might be useful on this page?

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January 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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When creating a reference to a book or book chapter, the format depends on whether the book is an authored or an edited book. This post includes details and examples of each:
🔗 apastyle.apa.org/blog/book-ch...

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January 8, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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