Exercise Science: APA Citation

Anatomy of an APA citation

Author(s). (Year of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, Volume(Issue), page numbers. DOI

 

Campbell, T. M., McSharry, B. P., Steain, M., Ashhurst, T. M., Slobedman, B., & Abendroth, A. (2018). Varicella zoster virus productively infects human natural killer cells and manipulates phenotype. PLoS Pathogens, 14(5), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006999

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 a sample APA paper to see how citations and formatting are done.

Resources for creating APA-style citations

Free citation creation tools to help you generate APA-style citations:

  • MyBib
    • Generate citations and bibliographies by pasting a URL or searching for a resource by title
    • Covers APA 6 & 7
    • Copy and paste citations, download them as a Word doc, save them to Google Drive, print, or email them to yourself
  • NCSU Citation Builder 
    • Simple citation builder for some digital and print materials
    • Covers APA 6 & 7
    • Copy and paste your generated citation into your bibliography
  • Calvin College's Knight Cite 
    • Build citations for a wide range of resources in print, digital, multimedia, and communication
    • Covers APA 7
    • Create a free Knight Cite account to save citations and export them to Word or RTF document

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