Learn APA Style
Short guides to understanding APA 7 and applying it to your paper, with checked examples and links to the official sources.
Learn APA Style
Start here
What APA Style is and why it exists
Cite and reference
Author, date, title and source
Your document
Title page, formatting and checking in Word
About these guides
Each guide explains the rules of the seventh edition of the APA Publication Manual and separates what APA requires from what your school may ask for. The sources we used are listed at the end of every guide.
These guides were prepared by APAFly with the help of artificial intelligence and checked against the sources they cite; no outside expert reviewed them. If your instructor or institution gives you different instructions, follow theirs.
APAFly is an independent tool and is not affiliated with the American Psychological Association.