Research & Referencing
Support & Tools
Within this section, you will find the resources to help make sure you are referencing all of your research in the appropriate way. At All Saints' College, we use the APA referencing style.
Below you will find further resources regarding APA 7th edition.
Think you know everything about APA Style?
Official APA 7th guidelines
- APA Style Blog - 7th edition
officieel blog van the American Psychological Association over de 7e editie van the APA Publication Manual
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by ISBN: 9781433832154Publication Date: 2019
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Inclusive language guidelines.
Referencing
Tools for source citation
Scribbr has a handy app APA Citation Generator for creating and saving source citations and references.
- Choose the right type of publication.
- Look up a publication (title or DOI)
- Scribbr automatically fills in all the data. Do check that everything is correct.
- If Scribbr cannot find the publication fill in all data yourself.
- Click on 'Generate source'.
A reference manager is a web-based program that allows you to collect, store, organize and manage source citations (references).
Benefits of a reference manager:
- References are stored online and can be imported without manual entry.
- Attachments, e.g. the pdf file of an article, can be added to the references.
- References can be shared with others.
- Add source references directly into your article, report, etc. in APA style or any other desired style.
Well-known reference programs are Endnote, Mendeley, Refworks and Zotero.
Mendeley and Zotero are free.
In many search engines (in databases or catalogs), you can automatically generate a source reference.
If not, you still have all the data you need, together in one place, to generate a reference by yourself.
Catalog (e.g. WorldCat)
- For each catalog item, a bar with options appears.
- Choose "Cite", a window with options will appear.
- You can now export the source description to reference mangers like EndNote or RefWorks or choose a citation style from the drop-down menu.
- Choose APA 7th and copy the description that appears below it.
Note: always check that the automatic source citation is complete and conforms to the guidelines!
Google Scholar:
Each search result is presented with a bar with various options directly below it.
Choose the quotation marks icon in the bar:
- A screen appears with the bibliographic description of the article in 3 styles, including APA;
- Select the description in APA style and copy & paste it into the source list of the document you are writing,
- Be sure to check the data for completeness,
- You can also export the article to a reference manager to add to your document later.
- Checklist APA guidelines (HAN)The checklist is a two-page long pdf file containing 30 key elements, divided into four areas: 'General', 'In-text citations', 'Reference list' and 'Correct references'.
About this guide
All the information on this guide related to APA 7 has been copied with permission from Avans University of Applied Sciences.
This guide has been created from the is a result of a collaboration between several Dutch higher education institutions and the APA Working Group.
The source citations used as examples in this guide are partly derived from:
- The booklet The APA Guidelines Explained (3rd ed.) ,
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.),
- fictitiously made up.
No rights can be derived from the content of the sources.