APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition is a popular style used in research papers. APA is used in the areas of behavioral and social science. If you are interested in an online citation generator, BibGuru is linked below.
There are formatting rules one follows when writing a research paper (margins, page numbers, titles, capitalization, etc.), creating in-text citations in the body of the paper, and writing full citations in the References or the Works Cited page (the last page). View the
APA sample paper. Some professors may ask you to submit your papers to
Turnitin, a plagiarism-checking database.
You must have
both the in-text citations and the References page, which list all the sources you used for your paper.