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Formatting and Referencing

APA Referencing - 7th edition

This page contains examples to help you use the APA 7th edition referencing style correctly. 

The APA referencing style is an "author-date" style, so the citation in the text consists of the author(s) and the year of publication given wholly or partly in round brackets.

All referencing styles have two key components:

In-text citation: citations appear in the text of your document to show where you've used information or words from source materials.

 

Reference list (or bibliography): appears at the end of the document and contains the full details of each source cited in the text so the reader can find them if they want to. This is listed alphabetically by author's surname.