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Creating an APA Style Reference List Guide

Use the section label “References” (not

“Works Cited” or “Bibliography”).

• Double-space the reference list, both within and between references. Do not add extra lines between references.

• Order references alphabetically, usually by the first letter of the first author’s last name.

• Most references do not require . Include a retrieval date only when (a) a work is inherently designed to change over time (e.g., a Facebook profile page) and (b) you are citing an unarchived version of the work, as described in Section 9.16 of the Publication Manual.

• Do not include both a DOI and a URL in a reference entry. If a work has both a DOI and a URL, include only the DOI.

when writing reference list entries.

• Use the word “and” between two authors’ names in narrative in-text citations. Use an ampersand (&) between two authors’ names in parenthetical in-text citations and before the final author’s name in reference list entries.

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• Titles of works that are part of a greater whole (e.g., journal articles, book chapters, dictionary entries) are written in sentence case without italics.

• For book and report references, place any
identifying information (e.g., edition, report number, volume number) in parentheses after the title.

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American Psychological Association. (2022). Creating an APA Style reference list guide. https://apastyle.apa.

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