In 2020, the American Psychological Association updated their style manual. See the key changes below. We created the Write & Cite LibGuide to answer all your citation/plagiarism/copyright questions (hopefully!) You reviewed it for Health Psychology 1, but remember where it lives, and access it when it is time to cite your sources for your literature review!
Key changes for the 7th edition:
A focus on the 'Four Elements of a Reference" (Author, Date, Title, Source). This will help you create citations for all kinds of resources, even those not explicitly mentioned in the manual. All references should include the following information in this order:
Author : the person, people or group (including corporate authors e.g. "Bastyr Library")
Date: the date of publication or "n.d" if there is no publication date available
Title: the full title of the work
Source: the publication information that will allow readers to find the work - this could be the volume and issue number, the edition and publisher, the website... it depends on the resource, but you have to provide enough information for your readers to be able to locate it themselves!
Some other changes to note:
- Three or more authors can be abbreviated to First author, et al. on the first citation.
- Up to 20 authors are included in the References List.
- Ebook platform, format, or device is not required for eBooks and publisher location is not required for books!
- Publisher location isn't required for books..
Hyperlinks -
- you don't have to include the doi prefix, just the doi itself
- All hyperlinks retain the https://
- Links can be "live" in blue with underline or black without underlining
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