APA Style, 7th edition - Citing Sources

Chapter 4 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed,), starting on p.111 covers writing clearly and concisely. See the following pages for these topics:

• Chapter 4 Writing Style and Grammar, p. 111
• Grammar and Usage (verbs, pronouns, sentence construction) p. 117
• Levels of Heading (section headings and subheadings), p. 47-48 and inside front cover
• Creating Lists (formerly referred to as seriation), p. 189-191

Chapter 6 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed,), starting on p. 153 covers the mechanics of style.  Refer to this chapter for these topics:

• Punctuation (use of periods, commas, colons, semicolons, quotation marks, etc.), p. 153
• Spelling (preferred spellings, hyphenation), p. 161
• Capitalization, p. 165
• Italics, p. 170
• Abbreviations, p. 172
• Numbers, p. 178
• Statistical and Mathematical Copy, p. 181