Research Guides: Theory Informed Direct Practice: SSWG 5101 and SSWG 5102: APA Citation

APA Style

Purdue OWL APA 7 Style Guide
Well-regarded guide to APA 7 from Purdue University Writing Center. Links to the Introduction, Workshop and APA Formatting and Style Guide gives many samples.
More APA Style guidebooks
Temple Libraries has numerous other discipline-specific and content-specific guidebooks for writing and citing using APA Style. APA Style 7th edition came out in October 2019. Guidebooks published prior to 2019 will cover 6th edition.
Zotero: Collect & Organize Your Citations
Free tool to capture, download, organize, annotate, cite, and share citations, articles, ebooks, and other digital files. Easily switch from APA to other styles.
Zotero Samples for APA Styles
This research guide enables you to compare your Zotero Info Tab with the Zotero sample for a citation style (APA and Chicago) to check that you have all the necessary bibliographic information or metadata for the reference type.
ZoteroBib
A quick citation generator from the makers of Zotero citation manager. ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. Formatting options include APA style.

Citing Group Author

An example of how to cite a group author, for the DSM and an entry within the manual.

Citation for the DSM 5 online from Temple Libraries' PsychiatryOnline Premium Package database:

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

(For the list of references, use hanging indents and double-spacing)

Parenthetical citations: (American Psychiatric Association, 2022).

Narrative citations: American Psychiatric Association (2022)

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Anxiety disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

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Citing Data

Whatever citation style is used, the essential elements of a data citation are:

Title
Author (person who collected the data)
Date (Year)
Publisher/Distributor
Version
Persistent identifier (such as the Digital Object Identifier, Uniform Resource Name URN, or Handle System)

APA Data Set References
Example: O’Donohue, W. (2017). Content analysis of undergraduate psychology textbooks (ICPSR 21600; Version V1) [Data set]. ICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36966.v1
Parenthetical citation: (O’Donohue, 2017)
Narrative citation: O’Donohue (2017)
ICPSR's guide to proper research data citation
Roper Center instructions on how to cite their datasets
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Citation Managers

Citation managers integrate with word-processing programs for inputting in-text citations and generating the corresponding bibliographies.

Checking References

Be Careful - ChatGPT Appears to be Making up Academic References
This short video with transcript goes over three ways to check a reference: (1) using Google Scholar, (2) searching the Journal/Publication, and (3) checking the DOI.
Note: Library Search and Web of Science can also be used. If you need help, ask a librarian.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It also includes access to EndNote Online.