Assistive Technology Engineering

This guide is a quick introduction to the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition Style for citations, basic format, and sample annotated bibliography. Please be sure to consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 7th edition and/or the APA Style website for additional details.

There is a print copy available (call number is BF76.7 .P83 2020) at the Reference Desk, the Learning Commons Reference Collection and the third floor.

• APA 7 for Business : This is a continuously updated document created by business librarians across the US to give citation examples for common business databases (Mintel, Business Source Premier, IBIS, etc.) and documents (reports, analysis, etc.).

Most Notable changes from APA 6th edition to 7th edition

1. Publisher location is NOT included for book citations.

2. In-text citations from works with three or more authors is shortened from the first time mentioned to (Hernandez et al., 2020)

3. Include up to 20 authors in the reference.

4. DOIs need to be formatted as clickable URLs such as https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400256   

5. Don’t include “Retrieved from” in front of a URL unless a retrieval date is needed.

6. For website citation include the website name, unless it is the same as the author.

7. Clear guidelines for citing media contributors that are not authors or editors.

8. Citation examples are provided for different types of online sources including: podcasts, youtube videos, and social media posts.  

9. Use the singular “they” as a gender neutral pronoun instead of he or she.

10. Clear format guidelines are provided for student and professional research papers.

11. More flexibility in font choices/size and include:

    1. Calibri 11

    2. Arial 11

    3. Lucida Sans Unicode 10

    4. Times New Roman 12

    5. Georgia 11

12. The running head on the title page no longer includes the words Running head. It now only includes the title of the paper and the page number.

13. Student papers do not need to include a running head. (Unless specified from your instructor)

14. At the end of a sentence, use one space instead of two.

Citation Managers are bibliographic management programs that will help you keep track of articles and books as you find them, organize your references and create bibliographies in 100s of citation styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.)

They will also allow you to:

• Import citations as you research from databases and catalogs
• Save and organize citations
• Attach PDFs of articles, when available
• Embed citations (footnotes or in-text) into your word processing documents
• Collaborate with others online
• Discover the latest research

The most popular citation managers are EndNote and Zotero. Remember to always check with your professor if you are not sure.

EndNote - Web version (EndNote Online or EndNote Basic) free to anyone; integrates with MS Word; the Instruction Labs at the University Library have the Cite-While-You-Write plug-in on Word for students to access their EndNote web accounts

Zotero - Free to anyone; integrates with MS Word and/or Google Docs; must be installed on your own computer 

EndNote Web:

• Help with EndNote Web (from your CSUN librarian)
• EndNote FAQ (from EndNote website)
• EndNote YouTube Channel
• EndNote LibGuide (Clarivate)

​Zotero:

• Zotero's support page for instructions.
• A step-by-step video