Reference guide for APA 7th edition

Reference guide for APA 7th edition intended for students at the department of Biology and CEC, Lund University. NB! If you access the guide using a smartphone, the text will open below the menu.

General instructions

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On the pages below you find general instructions on how to write references according to APA (7th edition). You can learn about

how to write in-text references,
how to construct a reference list,
how many authors you should list,
how to write a reference to two or more works within the same parenthesis,
what to do if you have several references with the same author and publication date,
how you cite a specific part of a work,
what to do if you cannot find the author of a work,
what to do if you do not know when the work was published,
when and how to use acronyms, and
how to cite a work written in a language other than the one you are using in your text