{"id":44,"date":"2018-11-07T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-oneonta-education106\/?post_type=back-matter&#038;p=44"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:10:58","slug":"appendix-a-apa-style","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/back-matter\/appendix-a-apa-style\/","title":{"raw":"Appendix A: APA Style","rendered":"Appendix A: APA Style"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Why Is APA Documentation Important?<\/h2>\r\nAmerican Psychological Association (APA) Style is a method of formatting and referencing works in research papers and manuscripts. This style is most commonly practiced by academics within the social sciences, including the fields of nursing, psychology, and political science, and economics. APA style provides writers with a consistent formula for acknowledging the works of others using parenthetical in-text citations and a page listing all references. Additionally, APA style makes use of specific guidelines concerning the structure, content, and order of each page of a research paper or manuscript. Adhering to the uniform standards of APA style will enhance your paper\u2019s organization and allow readers to review your work with greater clarity.\r\n\r\nThe APA articles and templates on this website were originally developed in accordance with the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA now is in the 7th edition. Consult the Publication Manual (7th ed.) for more details about formatting and organizing your document.\r\n\r\nAbove from:\r\n<h2>APA Writing Style:<\/h2>\r\nHVCC resources on citing your sources.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.hvcc.edu\/citeyoursources\/apa\">https:\/\/libguides.hvcc.edu\/citeyoursources\/apa<\/a>","rendered":"<h2>Why Is APA Documentation Important?<\/h2>\n<p>American Psychological Association (APA) Style is a method of formatting and referencing works in research papers and manuscripts. This style is most commonly practiced by academics within the social sciences, including the fields of nursing, psychology, and political science, and economics. APA style provides writers with a consistent formula for acknowledging the works of others using parenthetical in-text citations and a page listing all references. Additionally, APA style makes use of specific guidelines concerning the structure, content, and order of each page of a research paper or manuscript. Adhering to the uniform standards of APA style will enhance your paper\u2019s organization and allow readers to review your work with greater clarity.<\/p>\n<p>The APA articles and templates on this website were originally developed in accordance with the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA now is in the 7th edition. Consult the Publication Manual (7th ed.) for more details about formatting and organizing your document.<\/p>\n<p>Above from:<\/p>\n<h2>APA Writing Style:<\/h2>\n<p>HVCC resources on citing your sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.hvcc.edu\/citeyoursources\/apa\">https:\/\/libguides.hvcc.edu\/citeyoursources\/apa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-44\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-hostos-education\/chapter\/why-is-apa-documentation-important\/\">https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-hostos-education\/chapter\/why-is-apa-documentation-important\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Foundations of Education. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: SUNY Oneonta Education Department. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":85404,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-hostos-education\/chapter\/why-is-apa-documentation-important\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Foundations of Education\",\"author\":\"SUNY Oneonta Education Department\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"back-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-44","back-matter","type-back-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/back-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/44\/revisions\/811"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/44\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"back-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter-type?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-education106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}