APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition is used in the behavioral and social sciences areas.If interested in generating online citations, 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 on the References 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 is a list of all sources you used for your paper.
This guide helps you to select verbs to introduce paraphrases or quotes.