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Official APA Pages

APA Style Information
APA style home page

APA Manual
Description and for sale in hardcover, softcover, and spiral-bound

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions on APA style

APA update on website citinghttp://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

APA Style http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
changes for citing electronic resources as outlined in the 5th edition.

Changes from fourth edition
http://www.apastyle.org/fifthchanges.html
This site has a section that describes the changes from the 4th to the 5th edition. The changes are described chapter by chapter.

Third Party Pages

(The following are some recommended sites that conform to 5th edition. Note that other sites with APA examples may still be based on the now outdated 4th edition.)

Purdue: Using APA Format
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

The Writing Center from the University of Wisconsin, Madison Campus. http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html#review
This site has the major aspects of the 5th edition which include parenthetical references, reference list, headings, usuage and style, formatting your paper, and citing electronic sources.

A sample paper according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition 2001
http://www.valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/apapaper.html

How to Cite Sources Using the APA Citation Style
Prepared by the University of Lethbridge Library. I've included this because it is from my home campus, but note that it is based on the 4th edition, and so out of date.

Last updated September 2002. Thanks to Holly Gunn for suggested links.