Overview of APA style 7th edition

APA Style is about so much more than formatting! They provide guidance on how to think critically about writing more eloquently. This video is a recording of a session that was done live. It provides a brief overview of APA style. Learners are directed to helpful online resources direct from APA style for further information. At the link below you will find materials from the latest version of an APA overview. Additional links are provided below the slides.

0:00 Introduction and overview
1:30 Why doe APA style matter?
3:12 Excellent Resources!
4:06 File Format
4:47 Margins
5:20 Font
6:44 Spacing
7:33 Title Page
11:15 Body of the paper
12:22 Introduction
13:00 Paragraphs
15:06 Citations
21:35 & vs. “and”
22:20 Quotations
23:42 Abbreviations
25:57 Numbers
27:07 Headings
38:55 References

***Note the YouTube reference list entry at the end has been updated. The title should have been italicized. I also changed the title since posting.***


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[tarahope]

This was amazing, thank you! Very informative, just wish I had something like this 2 years ago. I am in my last class of my BSN and this was the best information compacted into one place! Thank you so much!

[christineelam]

Thank you for the slides to the work and how it is broken down I will try to review this more

[evlopez]

This helped me a lot!! I just started my DNP program and we are hitting the floor running with papers. It's been several years since my bachelors program. I forgot a lot of material plus many many updates. THANK YOU for simplifying it. It was an hour long but I learned a lot.

[christineelam]

This is all new to me but Im learning that this helpful when citing the work and help when writing papers

[DLRudder]

Does the word count not make the “page count” making margin manipulation moot?

[pinkoceanflower]

What if lectins and oxalates bother us from fruits and vegetables?

[vanessafshaow]

Hmm I got marks taken off when I put Retrieved from infront of a DOI that started with https

[darshangohel]

I have doubt on Title page. I am in aerospace department, but I have to write paper on a topic of Economics. this assignment is given by our economics professor under the course offered by Humanities Department. so which department should I write in the title page ??

[josefinamagallanes]

That piece 29:37 should have been the pages of this power point zoomed in.

[josefinamagallanes]

Quick question! Microsoft has a APA template, could that be used

[JoelGatundu]

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[johnmwaura]

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[josefinamagallanes]

thank you for the video, but it did not help much, it was too long and unclear.

[josefinamagallanes]

dont do the pie thing - that only distracts people into thinking about food.

[JehRoniMo]

Lmao, redundancy, one inch margin vs 3/4 inch margin whoOOOOooo now i cant read it

[josefinamagallanes]

You realize when you are you do not have to speak in sentences, paragraphs etc, it is not ideal, you are not

[josefinamagallanes]

could you only give us facts and not student examples?

[josefinamagallanes]

seriously you could not fit everything in a one hour "simplified videO>?

[josefinamagallanes]

By the way power point is the worse way to You should have used real sentences with real examples and talk less because your images should have spoken for themselves, in a power point otherwise you are wasting time, which you are and it defeats the purpose of using power point.