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| This guide has been created as a collaboration between Douglas College Library and faculty from Health Sciences to provide help with citing common health sciences resources that may not be covered in the APA manual itself. It is not meant to be an exhaustive guide to APA. For more detailed guidance on APA, including paper formatting rules, rules for additional formats and/or links to sample APA papers see one of the excellent guides below. |
Douglas College Library Guide to APA, 7th ed, which includes:
- Detailed instructions on how to format the full range of "author name" possibilities, e.g., single authors, multiple authors, organization/group as author etc.
- See the Author Types - Who? box on the Four Elements of a Reference page.
- See the Author Types - Who? box on the Four Elements of a Reference page.
- How to cite Social Media sources
- How to cite Secondary Sources, e.g., sources that were cited in the resource you used, but that you did not read yourself
- How to cite course materials, e.g., articles from course packs, PowerPoint slides from Blackboard, lecture notes, handouts etc.
- How to cite in-text
Douglas College Library: Citing Indigenous Elders & Knowledge Keepers
APA Style Blog: Covers many formats/resources not included in the print manual and includes a Q & A and many helpful posts