Hi FreedomFrog:
It sucks that you have such a stickler for a prof. Remember that your placement in his class is temporary... meaning "this too shall pass". It's up to you whether the "passing" is like gas (stinks for the time being) or like a kidney stone (beyond painful and sometimes bloody).
If you are feeling that the prof has a personal bias against you, and things are not improving by the withdrawal date of your course, see if there is a way you can drop the course for now and pick it up next term with a different prof.
My experience with profs like this is to take their assignments and study it before you begin writing. Find out exactly what they are asking for and give it to them. If they specify APA citation 4th edition in your course outline, do not use APA citation 5th edition. Before you turn in your work, review each part of the assignment and determine whether you have met the criteria of the assignment in your work. Make sure you do a complete grammar and spell check of the assignment before you submit it, and have someone else proofread it for you to see if there are any errors that got through the spell check and grammar check. Another proofreading tip: read the assignment backward - you'll be looking at the words one at a time and will be able to see any spelling errors that you may have missed on previous reads.
In addition to JK666's APA link, here is another APA citation guide that I've found extremely useful - I've even given the link to some of my kids teachers who like to use visuals with their students - this one provides color-coding for each section of the citation:
http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm
Good luck!
