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APA STYLE

Title Pages and Reference Lists

Presentation Overview

• Why APA?

• Formatting Title Pages • Formatting Reference Lists • Resources

Why APA?

Different professions use different manuals

Modern Language Association (MLA)

• English Studies • Foreign Language and Literatures

American Psychological Association (APA)

• Social Sciences (Psychology, Sociology, Communications, etc.) • Nursing

Chicago Style

• History • Arts • Sciences

Title Page Format

• Running head • 50 characters or less • Flush left • All caps • Page number • Top right corner • Title • Centered on upper half of page • Author’s name • School name

Body Page Format

• Running head • Flush left • All caps • Without the words “Running head” • Page number • Top right corner

Crediting Sources

•

Crediting sources

gives an author or resource credit for original information. Crediting sources in your paper includes two parts: •

In-Text Citations:

When you present information in the body of your paper, you briefly identify its source.

•

Reference List:

On a separate page at the end of your paper, you write a detailed list of the sources cited in your paper.

• The in-text citations and reference list should credit the exact same sources.

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Reference List Format

• Starts on a new page • Title: References • Centered • No other changes to type • ½ inch hanging indent • Double spaced • Alphabetized

Alphabetical Order

Reference Entry

Basic: By last name Multiple entries by same author: Earliest first Multiple entries by same author in same year: By title Different authors with same last name: By first intital No author: By title Basham, C. (n.d.). Gee, J. P. (2005). Kaplan, R. B. (1966). Kaplan, R. B. (1988). Hughes, C. (2005a). Adolescence and parental… Hughes, C.

(2005b). Effects of parental neglect on… Light, L. (2008).

Light, M. (2006).

Office of institutional research. (n.d.)

References

• A reference entry generally includes the following four elements in this order: 1.

Author’s name 2.

Date of publication 3.

Title of the work 4.

Publication information

Author’s Name

1 Author 2 Authors

Reference Entry

Gee, J. P.

Verhaak, L., & de Haan, E. 3-7 Authors 8+ Authors Group as Author No Author Yoshida, T., Taga, C., Matsumoto, Y., & Fukui, K. Gilbert, D. G., McClernon, J. F., Rabinovich, N. E., Sugai, C., Plath, L. C., Asgaard , G., … Botros, N.

University of Pittsburgh.

Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang initiative conference.

Publication Date

Book, Journal Article Magazine, Newspaper No Publication Date (2005).

(2008, June 5).

(2008, June).

(2008, June/July).

(2008, Summer).

(n.d.).

Reference Entry

Title of Work

Reference Entry

Article or Chapter Periodical (Journal, Newspaper, Magazine) Book Peer victimization in children with obsessive compulsive disorder: Relations with symptoms of psychopathology.

B

ritish Journal of Psychology.

Discourse analysis: Theory and method.

The history of the Supreme Court.

Publication Information

Reference Entry

Book Periodical (Journal, Newspaper, Magazine) New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Pretoria, South Africa: Unisa.

British Journal of Psychology

,

97

(1), 95-114.

Example: Book

Author, A. A. (Year of publication).

Title of work.

Location: Publisher.

Example: Edition of a Book

Author, A. A. (Year of publication).

Title of

work (Xxx ed.). Location: Publisher.

Example: Chapter in an Edited Book

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In E. E. Editor (Ed.),

Title of book

(pp. xx-xx). Location: Publisher.

Example: Article in a Journal

Author, A., & Author, B. (Year of publication). Title of article.

Title of Journal

,

volume number

(issue number), 10-20.

Electronic Sources

• Use the same four elements (author’s name, publication date, title of work, and publication information) in the same order.

• Add electronic retrieval information at the end of your entry: • Use a DOI (digital object identifier) if available. Before the DOI write: http://dx.doi.org/ • If no DOI is given, use a URL (uniform resource locator). Before the URL write: Retrieved from

Example: eBook

With DOI: • Author, A. A. (Year of publication).

Title of work

[version]

.

Location: Publisher. http://dx.doi.org/xxxxxxxxxxxxx Without DOI: • Author, A. A. (Year of publication).

Title of work

[version]

.

Location: Publisher. Retrieved from http://Webaddress Electronic-only: • Author, A. A. (n.d.).

Title of work.

Location: Publisher. Retrieved from http://Webaddress

Example: Website

• Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document. Retrieved from http://Web address

Example: Electronic Article with DOI

• Use the same format as a print journal • At the end of the reference, add the DOI • Found on the first page of an electronic journal article or on the database retrieval page for the article

Database Retrieval

• Do not include retrieval date or database information • Use the same format as other articles • Use DOI or URL

Example: Electronic Article without DOI

• If DOI is not available, include journal homepage URL • Before the URL write: Retrieved from

Let’s Practice

• You find an article by searching on EBSCO Host and this is the page that comes up…

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Let’s Practice

• Your reference entry should look like this: • Bickel, W. K. (2012). The emerging new science of psychopathology.

Addiction

,

107

(10), 1738-1739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03968.x

Resources: APA Manual (6

th

Edition)

Rules of Thumb A Writer’s Reference Gavilan College Writing Center

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• Writing Assistants trained to guide you through citing sources and formatting a reference list • Computers available to access research databases • Helpful advice for APA reference books and websites • • Schedule an appointment or drop in Hours: Monday thru Thursday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Friday 8:00 AM-1:00 PM