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Metro State Writing Center

Drafted spring 2025

  • Top 5 Types of Sources for Nursing Students Using APA Style on You Tube

Apa Style, Official. (2024, November, 12) Top 5 types of sources for nursing students using APA Style [Video]. You Tube. 9:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHd3QUWY3pA&list=PLpmI0isZQXKVM23xa0wEsOIlJuUUzhb_Q

  • Nursing Student References tab on APA Style Blog

- posted in fall 2024 and tagged as new to the 7th edition

“References for clinical practice appear throughout the seventh edition APA Style manuals but are consolidated on this page for ease of reference for health care professionals and students. This guidance is new to the 7th edition.”

American Psychological Association. (2024, November) Nursing student references. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/clinical-practice-references

Notes on differentiating in-text citations

  • in-text citations of multiple works with three or more authors shorten to the same form, write out as many names as needed to distinguish the sources, and abbreviate the rest of the names to “et al.” in every citation.
    Example: both published 2024
    1st authored by Jones, Chang, Montoya, Bautista, and Muhigaba
    2nd Jones, Chang, Ramos, Sekely, and Warne =

    (Jones, Chang, Montoya, et al., 2024) / (Jones, Chang, Ramos, et al., 2024)
  • If there are multiple sources with the same author and date, add lowercase letters to the date, like this: Chau, B. (2021a) … Chau, B. (2021b). see APA 7 manual sections 8.19 and 9.47 and this page on the Blog - https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/same-year-author