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Complete APA 7 Style guide for academic papers

Quickly find how to format your paper, create a title page, use citations, prepare references, and present tables or figures in APA 7 Style.

Updated August 4, 2026

By Andrés Rivas

What APA 7 Style is

APA Style provides a clear and consistent way to present academic papers. It guides document organization, the acknowledgment of other people's ideas, and the information readers need to find each source.

Not every guideline applies in the same way to every paper. A short assignment, a thesis, and a professional manuscript may require different elements. If your university or instructor provides specific requirements, follow them together with the APA rules that apply.

What do you need to do?

Choose a task to go directly to the guide you need.

Format the documentSet margins, font, line spacing, indentation, and pages.Create the title pageArrange the details on an APA 7 student title page.Cite a sourceAcknowledge others' ideas and avoid plagiarism with clear citations.Prepare referencesBuild each reference and connect it with its citations.

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Document format

How to format an APA 7 title page

Learn what an APA 7 student title page includes, compare official and institutional layouts, and use clear examples before creating it in Word.

APA 7 style mechanics: writing and presentation rules

Learn how APA Style presents capitalization, italics, quotation marks, abbreviations, numbers, units, statistics, and mathematical symbols.

Paper structure

Citations and sources

In-text citations

Learn why citations matter, how they prevent plagiarism, and how to write parenthetical, narrative, and paraphrase citations in APA 7 Style.

APA 7 reference types: formats and examples

Identify the kind of work you used and open the right guide for its reference and in-text citations.

How to cite laws, court cases, and legal materials

Learn how to cite court cases, statutes, bills, regulations, patents, constitutions, treaties, and other legal materials.

APA 7 reference list: format, order, and examples

Learn to build an APA 7 reference list with examples, alphabetical order, and hanging indents, and see how it differs from a bibliography.

Visual elements

You do not need to learn the entire style before you begin. Work in stages and return to this page whenever a question comes up:

  1. Set your paper's general format, review its style mechanics, and complete the APA 7 title page.
  2. Define the paper structure and organize the headings so the content is easy to follow.
  3. Check that ideas taken from other sources have an in-text citation. If you copy the exact words, apply the rules for direct quotations.
  4. Make sure every citation has an APA reference, then organize all entries in the reference list.
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Each guide introduces the concept, explains the rule, and then shows how to apply it with examples.

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