The Concise Guide to APA Style, Seventh Edition is the official APA Style resource for students, written for high school and undergraduate students, instructors, and writers learning APA Style. This easy-to-use pocket guide is adapted from the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, providing complete guidance for new writers on effective, clear, and inclusive scholarly communication and the essentials of formatting papers and other course assignments.

The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect best practices in scholarly writing and publishing, with content relevant to a range of majors and courses, including psychology, social work, criminal justice, communications, composition, education, business, engineering, and more. The guide features a new chapter focused on student papers, providing sample student title page, paper, and annotated bibliography, as well as streamlined APA Style headings and in-text citations.

Additionally, the guide includes a new chapter on writing style and grammar, along with chapters on punctuation, lists, italics, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, and statistics. The latest bias-free language guidelines are also included, with more than 20 new sample tables and figures.

Comprehensive guidelines on citation are provided to help writers credit their sources appropriately and avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism. The guide includes more than 100 new reference templates and examples, covering traditional sources (e.g., journal articles, books, dissertations, and reports) as well as many others (e.g., social media, webpages and websites, legal).

Overall, the Concise Guide to APA Style, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive and essential resource for students, instructors, and writers learning APA Style, ensuring effective, clear, and inclusive scholarly communication and proper formatting of academic works.

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