This document provides guidelines for citing sources, quoting text, and creating a reference list according to APA style. It states that authors should cite any sources that influenced their work, and cite all facts and figures that are not common knowledge. It describes how to properly quote and paraphrase sources, both for online and printed material, and the need to get permission to reuse lengthy quotations or adapted figures. The document explains the author-date citation style used in APA publications and provides examples of how to format citations for different source types in both the text and reference list.