APA Style: Home

Welcome to JIU's Academic Success Center: APA Style Page

This guide contains tips for maximizing your experience as an academic writer and additional resources to help you with APA style.

ACADEMIC
SUCCESS CENTER (ASC)

APA Style Key Resource: Academic Writer

ASC QUICK LINKS

LEARN

Quick Guides are short, self-paced modules to help you learn APA Style rules.

Tutorials are longer self-paced modules to provide more in-depth lessons on writing.

Most modules contain Knowledge Checks that help you assess your understanding of APA Style rules.

This section provides sample papers, references, tables, and figures.

REFERENCE

Add and manage your references for papers.

WRITE

Use templates such as a basic, theoretical, or literature review paper or view more sample papers to assist you with a specific paper type.

Academic Writer offers three centers—the Learning Center, the Reference Center, and the Writing Center. First, see an overview of each center below. Then, use the tips and FAQs below to help you set up your account and navigate the platform.

Using Academic Writer

APA Style Basic 7th Ed.

Abbreviations

Citations

DOI Correction

Headings

Quotes

Title Page

References

References (Examples)

Student Paper Template

Inclusive Language

Creating APA Style Tables & Figures

APA Writing Guidelines

APA Punctuation Guidelines

Discussing Statistics In-Text

APA: All the way

Are you using all the features available in Academic Writer? New and experienced users are invited to join us on a tour of Academic Writer’s three centers. During this interactive group session, you will learn how to explore the Learn center to locate APA guidelines and samples, use the Reference center to build and import references, and create papers using APA templates in the Write center. Coaching Scheduler

Academic Writer Made Easy

DOI Information

When using Academic Writer to generate a reference, remove the proxy information from the reference as highlighted below.

Incorrect

Ambrose, A. (1963). The age of onset of ambivalence in early infancy: Indications from the study of laughing. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 4(3–4), 167–181. https://doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1963.tb02119.x

Corrected

Ambrose, A. (1963). The age of onset of ambivalence in early infancy: Indications from the study of laughing. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 4(3–4), 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1963.tb02119.x

Creating References in Academic Writer

See the following writing tips to get started:

1. Go to the Academic Writer website.

Note: You must be signed into JIU to access Academic Writer. The link will route you to the JIU sign-in page if you are not signed in. In addition, academic Writer is not compatible with Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge; therefore, we suggest using another browser to avoid any issues.

Select the “Welcome” tab at the top of the screen and then select “Login.”
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If you have not yet created an account, see the Academic Success Center’s FAQ on creating an account if you need assistance. If you have created an account, log in.
Review a description of the three centers and go to the one that best fits your needs (or try them all).