Research guides: Biology: APA style

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	Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style Work through this e-module at your own pace.

Tutorials and e-modules

Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style

Work through this e-module at your own pace.

Citation resources for APA style

APA 7th Edition Quick Reference Guide
How to format reference list entries for journal articles, books, and chapters in a book.
APA 7th Edition Reference Examples
Provides detailed examples for citing common and uncommon sources.
APA 7th Edition Tutorials and Webinars
The Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style covers the basics of the seventh edition APA Style.
APA 7th Edition Style Bolg
Search the APA's blog to find answers to specific questions.
APA 6th Edition Resources
For the transition period between the 6th and 7th editions, APA has archived their 6th edition style blog, FAQs, and other resources.

Quick Reference

Referencing and Research Skills
Academic scholarship involves properly acknowledging sources. It shows readers where your ideas came from, and gives them the details to find the source themselves. From the Office of Academic Integrity.
APA Style Citation: Quick Reference
This guide explains how to provide in-text citations and reference entries for common types of sources. Provided by the University of Waterloo, Writing and Communications Centre

Formatting style and grammar resources for APA

Figures
All types of visual displays other than tables are considered figures in APA Style. The rules for figures have been revised from the 6th edition.
Headings
Headings identify the content within sections of a paper. The rules for tables have been revised from the 6th edition.
Tables
Tables are visual displays composed of columns and rows in which numbers, text, or a combination of numbers and text are presented. The rules for tables are the same as in the 6th edition.
Other formatting considerations
This present information about APA Style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition.

Citing Images

You must cite the source of an image used in a paper, lab report, presentation or seminar. When citing an image in the body of your paper, cite it in one of two ways:

Credit the source at the end of the image caption:

“Reproduced with permission from (a) H.E. Hoekstra and (c) J.L. Feder.”

“Reproduced from Thakur et al. (2008a) with permission (originally published in Nature, http://www.nature.com).”

Credit images found on the Internet as follows:

Figure 2. “Water lily [Nymphaeaceae] blooming in Saint Petersburg’s Botanical Gardens, September 2005,” by A. L. Olsen. Retrieved from the NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure) Digital Image Library website, maintained by the Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological Survey, http://life.nbii.gov/dml/mediadetail.do?id=2995

How to cite a video in APA format