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Criminology & Criminal Justice Research Guide

APA Overview

Basics of APA Style Video

View the video by California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Library to get a concise (3:00-minute) overview of APA Style. The video includes a great explanation of the relationship between a paper's in-text citations and its references list.

APA 7th Edition Resources

The American Psychological Association has released a seventh edition of their publication manual. APA has several pages and handouts on their website that you may find useful that are linked below. To view more, click on the Style and Grammar Guideline link on the APA Style webpage.

Library Tutorials

Complete the Basics of APA Tutorial and earn a completion certificate to share with your instructor:

Find additional research-related tutorials that are commonly assigned in courses:

The Bluebook

Bluebook Legal Citations:

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined in the Texas A&M University-San Antoinio's Procedure for Academic Dishonesty Cases (April 19, 2010) as:

"Plagiarism - A student can be accused of academic dishonesty if he/she uses the ideas, data or language of another without specific or proper acknowledgment."

These websites below offer ways to better understand plagiarism and how to avoid it: