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This is a pdf of the Library's popular APA handout available in print at the Library.
This handout simply provides a very brief overview of the APA citation format with examples of most common types of items cited by students.
This website is published and maintained by the creators of the APA citation style. There are great topic pages, handouts, videos and tutorials & a blog with answers to commonly asked questions.
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See below examples of how to cite
If you are citing the print book version of the DSM-5 TR, do not include the doi URL at the end.
If you are citing older print editions of the DSM, this page of the APA Style Blog has APA citation examples for those:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/diagnostic-manual-references
The example below in red text is a hypothetical test taken from the PsycTests database.
You can find more details in section 10.11 Tests, Scales and Inventories in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Because CPS is both a database and a reference work, there are two ways you can choose to cite articles retrieved from CPS using the APA citation style. We recommend citing the information as an article from a database; this approach is more straight forward and would cover any content from the database - not just drug monographs.
Reference Format: Author. (year, Month date). Title of the entry. Database Name. Retrieved Month date, year from URL of the database homepage
Reference Example: Canadian Pharmacists Association. (2020, May 5). Viagra. CPS database. Retrieved May 14, 2023 from https://cps.pharmacists.ca
In Text Citation Example: (Canadian Pharmacists Association, 2020).
The examples above are copied directly from the How to Cite Statistics Canada Products page of the Stats Can website. Consult the Tables & Figures page of the Library's APA guide for additional information about how to format those kinds of items in your paper.
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