APA stands for American Psychological Association. It is a way to format your paper and give credit to your sources.
Who uses APA style?
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Article in an Electronic Journal
Grady, J.S., Her, M,. Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
(Grady et al., 2019)
Newspaper Article
Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html
(Carey, 2019)
Book
Rabinowitz, F.E (2019). Deepening group psychotherapy with men: Stories and insights for the journey. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/00001132-000
(Rabinowitz, 2019)
Chapter of a Book
Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their developments. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345-359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016
(Aron et al., 2019)
Webpage on a Website (refer to Purdue OWL for different ways to cite websites)
National Institute of Mental Health. (2018, July). Anxiety disorders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/indnex.shtml
(National Institute of Mental Health, 2018)