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APA Style (7th ed.)

The DSM-5 is cited as a book in APA Style (American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 324), using the following format:

Author. (Year). Title of manual italics and sentence case (#th ed). https://doi.org/xxx

Since the author and publisher are the same, only the former is included in the reference, as in: 

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596

Reference

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000