The APA Style website is an authorized source for APA citation style guides. The website has good information and comes directly from APA. See the links below for some helpful guide resources.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is renown for their excellent and detailed citation style resource guides used across the nation. Always a good starting point for those needing detailed instructions for current citation styles.
Scribbr's Knowledge Base section is a great resource for your citation needs. Always kept up-to-date, and provides easy to understand instructions and guides.
"Plagiarism is the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own; it denies authors or creators of content the credit they are due. Whether deliberate or unintentional, plagiarism violates ethical standards in scholarship (see APA Ethics Code Standard 8.11, Plagiarism).
Writers who plagiarize disrespect the efforts of original authors by failing to acknowledge their contributions, stifle further research by preventing readers from tracing ideas back to their original sources, and unfairly disregard those who exerted the effort to complete their own work.
To avoid plagiarism, provide appropriate credit to your sources by adding author–date in-text citations for direct quotations and ideas (e.g., credit the originators of theories). If you model a study after one conducted by someone else, give credit to the author of the original study."
American Psychological Association. (2019, September 1). Plagiarism. American Psychological Association. Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/plagiarism