Create a rough draft of your presentation, making sure that you use personal pronouns and active voice whenever possible, and that you write clearly and concisely while avoiding figures of speech. APA style strives for clarity whenever possible; following these guidelines will help you to write in a way that your audience will understand.
Write out your presentation on the slides. Take care to cite sources in text. The general APA format for citing a print source in text is (author, date). Web sites should use the same author and date format, if the site or the article has both an author and a date. Consult your APA manual for all other instances of in-text citation.
Type out each full citation for all of the sources that you used. You will use these in the slides as well as on a reference slide at the end of the text. Typing them out beforehand allows you to type the needed reference once and then copy it as needed onto the slides; this way, you reduce the possibility for mistakes in your citations. The general format for APA references is:
Last Name, First Initial. (Year) Article Name, Journal or Book name in italics. Publisher.
Check your APA style guide for the specific format of your reference.
Copy and paste the full citation the first time each source appears into the footnote of the slide. In most presentation software programs, you can add the footnotes by clicking the "Insert" tab and clicking "Header and Footer." Type in the reference in the footer field. You only must add each full reference the first time it appears; after that you do not need to repeat them until the reference slide at the end of the presentation.
Create a final reference slide or slides. List all of your sources alphabetically by author, or by article or website name if there is no author. When you present, you will click through the reference slides briefly to allow the audience to see your references. You may also wish to provide a handout with your references to the audience.