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Athletic Training

This guide is designed for graduate-level athletic training classes at NAU's Mountain Campus and the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.

APA Style

APA FORMATTING

Use this page to learn how you can master APA formatting and manage your citations.

 The APA Style Manual 

The 7th Edition of the APA's official style manual was released In October 2019. Along with the new edition are several changes to the APA formatting rules employed in the 6th Edition (published in 2010). For a complete list of changes, see the following page: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_changes_7th_edition.html.

Cline Library also has three copies of the 7th Edition available for in-house use or checkout. For information about availability, see the following link:


 Online formatting help 

Make use of the following online resources to ensure that you are meeting the current APA 7 formatting guidelines:


 Citation management help 

While the resources mentioned above can provide helpful and accurate information about in-text references, works cited pages, and other components of citation, it is also strongly recommended that graduate students collect and organize their citations using a citation management application such as Zotero or Mendeley.

If you're just getting started with these products, NAU provides step-by-step guidelines for navigating them with ease: