Prof. Zwick - CJ202 FALL 2022 Juvenile Delinquency: Citing Sources in APA 7

​When you write a research paper, you use information and facts from a variety of resources to support your own ideas to develop new ones. You cite these sources for the following reasons:

• To Give Credit to the original source by acknowledging experts and scholars for their contribution.
• To Establish Credibility by demonstrating to your reader that your ideas are well supported. 
• To Help the Reader by guiding them to more information about your topic.
• To Help Researchers Organize and Share Information in a Standardized Way

The purpose of the in-text citation is to direct the reader to the full citation on the Reference page by creating a path from:

• The original source to
• Your text using in-text citations to
• Your Reference page​