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This blog is a repost. It was originally published on the APU Writing Center’s blog. This post also follows guidelines for APA 6th edition; it has not been updated to reflect APA 7th edition guidelines.

However, many of the principles for the 6th edition remain in place for the 7th edition.

Music classes use both Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) and the American Psychological Association (APA) manual as style guides.

Generally, if you are in a music literature class, your professor will have CMOS or its student version, Turabian, listed on your course syllabus as the course style guide.

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(You can read about how to cite song lyrics in CMOS in another blog post.)

If, however, you are taking music education courses or writing your master’s thesis in music education, then APA will govern most of your style and documentation.

This blog post examines conventions for citing music lyrics in APA.The tricky thing about citing musical works in APA is that no section of the APA manual strictly examines citing musical sources. Instead, you have to consider th

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