APA 7 is the style most Nepali management, education and social science departments set — BBA, MBA, MBS and BSW coursework almost always specify it, as do most NepJOL journals in those fields.
Choose your source type, enter what the source shows, and the reference is assembled in your browser. Nothing is invented: where a detail is missing, the output names the field so you know what still needs checking rather than quietly filling a gap.
Author, date, title, source — in that order, every time. Once you can see those four slots, unfamiliar source types become far less intimidating: you are always answering who, when, what and where.
Author names are inverted with initials only: Shrestha, R. K. The date sits in brackets. Only the first word of a title and any proper nouns are capitalised, which catches people out because it looks wrong to anyone used to headline capitalisation.
Much of the data in Nepali coursework comes from institutions rather than individuals: Nepal Rastra Bank bulletins, Central Bureau of Statistics volumes, ministry reports, NPC plans. In APA the institution is the author, written out in full in the reference.
Use the full name in the reference list and the abbreviation in later in-text citations, introducing it on first use: (Central Bureau of Statistics [CBS], 2021), then (CBS, 2021). Alphabetise the reference list under the full name, so CBS sits under C rather than under its abbreviation.
APA cites by author and date: (Shrestha, 2020) parenthetically, or Shrestha (2020) narratively. Three or more authors are shortened to the first surname plus et al. from the very first citation — the older rule requiring all names once has been dropped.
Give a page number for every direct quotation, and APA recommends one for paraphrase as well. Many Nepali departments require it for both, so include it whenever you can identify the page.
Capitalising every word of an article title is the most common error, followed by omitting the DOI where one exists and dropping the issue number from a journal reference. All three are visible at a glance to a supervisor who works in APA daily.
The other frequent problem is a reference list that does not match the text. Every in-text citation needs an entry and every entry needs at least one citation — sources cut during editing but left in the list are easy marks lost for nothing.
APA is standard for BBA, MBA, MBS, education and social science coursework, and for most NepJOL journals in those fields. Confirm with your department.
The institution is the author. Write the full name in the reference list, and introduce the abbreviation on first in-text use: (Central Bureau of Statistics [CBS], 2021), then (CBS, 2021).
For three or more authors, from the first citation onwards. The earlier rule of listing all authors once no longer applies.
APA recommends it and many Nepali departments require it. Always include one for direct quotations.
Sentence case for article and book titles — only the first word and proper nouns. Journal names keep their normal capitalisation.