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RefWorks is an online citation manager. You can access the program using this link. To sign-up for an account, you must use your Brooklyn College email.
This link leads to the APA Style Blog and three sample papers.
There are also dozens of more psychology specific handbooks published by the APA and available for searching on OneSearch.