APA 7th Edition: Creating APA Reference Entries | Scribbr 🎓

aba references provide detailed information about a source they're listed on the reference page at the end of your paper and correspond to in-text citations in the body text it's important to understand how an ap reference is built this enables you to review both your own work and the accuracy of any tool you might be using [Music] hi i'm jessica from scribber here to help you achieve your academic goals so how do you create your apa references there are two ways either manually or use a citation generator like the free one scribbler provides let's say i want to cite an article click on journal search article by title and site source although the reference format differs depending on the type of source for example a book web page or video they're both from the same four components author who is responsible for creating the work date when was the work published title what is the work called source where can the work be retrieved combine all of them and you'll have a reference like this we'll now take a closer look at these four elements and show you some examples the reference usually starts with the author's name this can be an individual multiple people or an organization in an ap reference the author's name is inverted start with the last name so smith followed by a comma and the initials t separated by a period and space trade infixes such as span or de as part of the last name don't include personal titles such as phd or doctor but do inclusive fixes like junior if there are multiple authors separate their names with commas but for the last author's name you should also insert an ampersand so here i have miller tc comma brown if an author is unknown try inferring it from the context for example an about us page on a website is usually written by the organization behind the website so use the organization name in your reference