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How many U.S. college students use APA Style? To understand more about how widely used APA Style is—and thus how useful it might be to know, no matter what you plan to study—we on the APA Style team set out to quantify how many U.S. college students use APA Style.

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Key takeaways from the Psi Chi webinar So You Need to Write a Literature Review This blog post describes key tasks in writing an effective literature review and provides strategies for approaching those tasks.

Transitional words and phrases (a) clarify the relationship between sentences and (b) help sentences in a paper flow more smoothly.

Our free Transitions Guide includes suggestions for phrases you can use for specific types of transitions.
https://on.apa.org/APA-Style-guides

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Why learn APA Style if you already know MLA style? Have you ever wondered, why can’t there be one writing style for everything? It’s a good question. We often hear this version: “Why learn APA Style if I already know MLA style?”

Appropriate level of citation The number of sources you cite in your paper depends on the purpose of your work. For most papers, cite one or two of the most representative sources for each key point. Literature review papers typically include a more exhaustive list of references.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: APA Style Webinar: An English Educator’s Guide to Introducing APA Style. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. English teachers at the high school and college level are increasingly asked to prepare students for future academic writing in disciplines using APA Style but may need to supplement their own APA Style knowledge. In this webinar, APA Style experts will set English teachers up for success by sharing...

This is a common question we get at the Research Help Desk!

To create an reference for an article with an assigned number rather than pages, write “Article” and the number after the volume and issue.

APA Style Tutorials and Webinars Tutorials and webinars for writers who are new to using seventh edition APA Style.

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YouTube references This page contains reference examples for YouTube videos and channels. The same format can be used for other sites that host user-generated videos, such as Vimeo.

Direct quotation of material without page numbers To directly quote from written material that does not contain page numbers, provide readers with another way of locating the quoted passage.

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Verb tense Verbs are direct, vigorous communicators. Use a chosen verb tense consistently throughout the same and adjacent paragraphs of a paper to ensure smooth expression.

"...discuss situations where students and researchers use ChatGPT to create text and to facilitate their research, not to write the full text of their paper or manuscript."

How to cite ChatGPT This post outlines how to create references for large language model AI tools like ChatGPT and how to present AI-generated text in a paper.

Paraphrasing A paraphrase restates another’s idea (or your own previously published idea) in your own words. Paraphrasing allows you to summarize and synthesize information from one or more sources, focus on significant information, and compare and contrast relevant details.

This handout with the six steps to proper citation is available free—along with many other handouts, guides, and checklists—on the site: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/handouts-guides

To create an reference for an article with an assigned number rather than pages, write “Article” and the number after the volume and issue.

See Example 6 in Chapter 10 of the Publication Manual or this example on our website: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/journal-article-references #2