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APA Citation Style 7th Ed. (other styles too)

A Table of the Major Changes

6th edition 7th edition
Place of publication was required for book citations - Place of publication no longer required (yay!)
In Text citations for 3 to 5 authors required all authors to be listed the first time, with "et al." being used for each In Text citation included after that - All In Text citations now only require the name of the first author with "et al." if there are more than 2 authors" (yay!)
A maximum of 7 authors were to be included in a reference, no matter how many authors there were - A maximum number of 20 authors now need to be included in a reference
URLs were to be preceded by "Retrieved from" - URLs no longer need to be preceded by "Retrieved from" (yay!)
If there is no DOI, include the home page of the database - For items from most of the Library databases with no DOI, reference as a print version
No clear guidelines existed for contributors to audiovisual works - Clear guidelines now exist for contributors to audiovisual works (yay!)
No guidelines existed for contributors to audiovisual works - Clear guidelines now exist for contributors to audiovisual works (yay!)

Bradley, L., Noble, N., & Hendricks, B. (2020). The APA publication manual: Changes in the seventh edition. The Family Journal, 28(2), 126-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480720911625