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APA Basics

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) by American Psychological Association
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ISBN: 9781433832154
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
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APA Reference Examples
Examples of the most common reference citations along with their corresponding in-text citations. Freely available online.
APA Style Tutorials and Webinars
Created by the American Psychological Association. You can choose the section you need from the tutorial index.
APA Sample Papers
A collection of sample papers from the APA manual. Includes examples of student and professional papers--with or without annotations. Includes also samples in Word Document format.

APA Tutorial

APA Format in Word 2016 by Colin Murphy, Ed.D.

About DOI in APA

DOI is a digital object identifier

The DOI is a a web address linked to the publisher information of the article or book chapter. This is more stable than using a link from a database. A group of publishers, Publishers Linking International Association (PILA) formed the CrossRef depository as a collaborative linking system. To find more information go to https://www.apa.org/pubs/librarians/industry/crossref

To find a DOI for a publication you can use the CrossRef website: https://www.crossref.org/

A simple way to do so is to use the Search Metadata search and enter the title of the article. Then you can check for the matching item.