APA is an author-date system: the in-text citation is (Author, Year), and the reference list is alphabetical by first author. Every element of the reference — author, date, title, source — ends in its own period.
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What this style does
Authors are surname, then initials with a period and a space after each (Smith, J. A.). For two to twenty authors, an ampersand precedes the final name.
With 21 or more authors, list the first 19, insert an ellipsis (. . .), then the final author's name — and do not put an ampersand before that last name.
Journal names are not abbreviated, are written in title case and italicized; the volume number is italicized while the issue number sits in plain parentheses directly after it. Article titles are sentence case with no italics and no quotation marks.
Page ranges are given in full with no pp., separated by an en dash. Include the DOI as https://doi.org/… when there is one, and no period after it.
Book references in APA 7 no longer include the publisher's location — just author, year, italicized title, publisher. Add the edition in parentheses right after the title when it is not the first.
How to use it
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Use author-date: (Smith, 2020) for a parenthetical citation, or Smith (2020) when the name is part of your sentence. With one or two authors name every author every time; with three or more, use the first author plus et al.
How many authors do I list in the reference?
List all authors up to 20, with an ampersand before the last. For 21 or more, list the first 19, then an ellipsis, then the final author — no ampersand in that case.
Do I need a DOI?
Include the DOI whenever the work has one, formatted as a full https://doi.org/ link. If there is no DOI and you retrieved the work outside a research database, include the URL instead. Do not put a period after either.
Does APA 7 include the publisher location?
No. APA 7 dropped the publisher city from book references; the entry is author, year, italicized title, publisher.
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