Addiction Counseling: Citing with APA
Cite Your Sources in APA
Why cite your sources?
When you use someone else's words, ideas, or images in your writing, you need to give them proper credit. Providing a citation or reference enables others to locate these sources, too! View this sample APA paper to see how citations and formatting are done.
Resources for creating APA-style citations
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APA Formatting and Style guide from OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue.
- APA citation examples (pdf) Examples of how to cite most common sources in APA.
Free citation creation tool to help you generate APA-style citations:
Need Help With Hanging Indents?
Here is a link to a short video tutorial for hanging indentation formatting in Google Docs.
Here is a link to a short video tutorial for hanging indentation formatting in Word.
Do You Need To Cite That?
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How and When to Use In-Text Citations (APA)
Articles from Library Databases Have Pre-Made Citations
Most library databases have built-in citation generators, which allow you to simply click on a "Cite" button to get the citation for that article in various formats. You can usually find this feature on the page for the specific article. Always double-check the citations from citation generators, as these automated tools can occasionally produce errors.
Here is an example of where to find the citation in Ebscohost databases:
