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Psychology: Citing Sources

This guide provides resources, tips, and tutorials for research in psychology.

APA Citation Guides

Most library databases include a citation tool that allows you to generate a citation for the source in different citation styles. Always check automatically-generated citations against the citation guidelines to make sure they are accurate. Use the following guidelines for help citing your sources using the APA citation style:

Why We Cite

This brief video explains why citations are so important (there are more reasons than you may know):

Tutorial: APA Citations

APA Citations 7th Edition

This tutorial covers APA 7th edition in-text citations and references pages, and provides opportunities to practice creating citations for book, article, and web sources.

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