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ADN Nursing: APA Citation

What is APA

APA is a citation format created by the American Psychological Association and is used mostly by the Health & Allied Sciences

Citations help the reader (your professor) understand your work in an organized manner 

Citations give credit to ideas and previous work 

Citations are NOT OPTINAL & not citing your work is plagiarism

 

Copy a formatted citation

Reference list guide

APA Quick Guide

This document is a very quick guide to formatting your papers. If you need additional APA help, use The Owl Perdue APA guide  

Detailed APA Paper Formatting

Citation Builder Sites

These sites are citation generators.  They will create a citation for you:

You should always double-check any of the citations that are made for you.  Never just blindly copy and paste a citation assuming it is correct.

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