APA Citation Style

1. APA stands for the American Psycological Association, and their methods of documentation are used primarily in scientific papers withing the fields of hard, behavioral, and social sciences (e.g. physics, sociology, chemistry, psychology, etc...).
2. This style allows writers to support their own ideas with pre-existing information while ensuring that each source is correctly documented (be it a direct quote or paraphrasing) in the hopes of eliminating any possible accusation of plagiarism.
3. The sixth edition of the APA Guidebook was published in July of 2009.

• Here is a link (PDF) to basic APA guidelines provided by the Writing Center.
• Here is a link to the OWL at Purdue with in-depth APA guidlines.
• Here is a link to the Wikipedia article which covers some more areas that pertain to graphical and statistical data.
• Here is a link to a sample paper provided by the Writing Center.