1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE SDSS-III/APOGEE SURVEY
2.1. The APOGEE instrument
2.2. Survey operations
2.3. 1m telescope fiber feed
2.4. Target selection
2.5. Scope of APOGEE data releases

3. BASIC DATA REDUCTION AND ASSOCIATED DATA PRODUCTS

4. STELLAR PARAMETER AND ABUNDANCE DETERMINATION
4.1. Synthetic spectra
4.2. Deriving stellar parameters and abundances
4.3. FERRE output
4.4. Versions and data releases

5. CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF DR12 PARAMETERS AND ABUNDANCES
5.1. Effective temperatures
5.2. Surface gravities
5.3. Calibrated parameters and abundance determination
5.4. Chemical Abundances
5.5. The abundance scale
5.6. Sample characteristics
5.7. Persistence

6. DATA PRODUCTS AND ACCESS
6.1. Catalog Archive Server (CAS)
6.2. Science Archive Server (SAS)
6.3. Web interface to the SAS

7. USING APOGEE DATA
7.1. Bitmasks, data quality, and target classes
7.2. Radial velocities
7.3. Stellar parameters
7.4. Stellar abundances
7.5. Selection effects
7.6. Caveats

8. USING APOGEE SPECTRA
8.1. Raw data
8.2. Visit spectra
8.3. Combined spectra
8.4. ASPCAP spectra and best fits
8.5. ASPCAP field results

9. CONCLUSION