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APA (7th edition) Citation Guide

General Guidelines

Textual works are covered in Sections 10.1–10.8 of the Publication Manual. The most common categories and examples are presented here. For the reviews of other works category, see Section 10.7.

 

Periodicals

Books and Reference Works

Edited Book Chapters and Entries in Reference Works

Reports and Gray Literature

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

Dissertations and Theses

Unpublished and Informally Published Works

Data sets are covered in Section 10.9 of the Publication Manual. For the software and tests categories, see Sections 10.10 and 10.11.
 
Data Sets

 

Audiovisual media are covered in Sections 10.12–10.14 of the Publication Manual. The most common examples are presented together here. In the manual, these examples and more are separated into categories for audiovisual, audio, and visual media.
Audiovisual Media

Online media are covered in Sections 10.15 and 10.16 of the Publication Manual. Please note that blog posts are part of the periodicals category.
Social Media

Webpages and Websites