APA 7 Citation Guide for Canadian Students (2026)

APA 7 uses an author-date in-text format: (Smith, 2024, p. 14). The reference list is alphabetical with a hanging indent and full https DOIs. Student papers drop the running head and include title, author, affiliation, course, instructor, and date on the title page.

APA 7 is the default style in Canadian psychology, nursing, education, business, and most social sciences. The changes from APA 6 are small but heavily marked - here is the working reference Canadian students actually use.

In-text

(Henderson, 2024, p. 14) ... Henderson (2024) found that ...

Reference list

Henderson, L. (2024). Indigenous knowledge in nursing curricula. Canadian Journal of Nursing Education, 56(2), 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1234/cjne.2024.5602

Quick rules

1. 1.Student papers do not include a running head - that changed in APA 7.
2. 2.Title page lists title, author, affiliation, course, instructor, and date.
3. 3.References use hanging indent, alphabetical by surname, DOIs as full https URLs.
4. 4.Use three authors before switching to 'et al.' (different from MLA and IEEE).
5. 5.Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers cite with permission and explicit attribution per APA 7 §8.9.
6. 6.Statistics Canada releases include the Catalogue number and table number.

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