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Home > Help > Style Guides APA Style Guide How would I cite... Preparing The References List APA style requires two elements for citing outside sources: parenthetical (in-text) references, and a references list. Together, these elements allow your reader access to the sources you consulted. For the system to function, all authors cited in the text must appear in the references list, and all authors listed must have been cited in the text. Formatting the References List: If you need more detailed information about the APA style's requirements for the references list, consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed., 2001), or your course instructor. General guidelines: Type the word 'References' at the top of a new page, centered. All entries should be double-spaced, unless your assignment instructs you otherwise. Appearance of Entries: Although the current Publications Manual advises standard (five spaces, first line) indentation for a references list, this is primarily designed to make typesetting easier; the typeset version will have hanging indents (first line flush left, the following lines five spaces indent). If your final version will be turned in for a grade rather than publication, we recommend that you use hanging indents for enhanced readability. We have formatted our sample references list with hanging indents. Capitalize only the first work of titles of books and articles and the first word after a colon. Use a comma to separate: 1) surnames (i.e., last names) from initials; 2) a newspaper title from p. or pp.; 3) a journal title from a volume number; 4) a volume number from page numbers; 5) when given, an issue number from page numbers; 6) (Ed.) from book title; 7) city of publication from state. Don't panic! The examples below will make this clearer!
Elements of a reference to an entire book Beck, C. A. & Sales, B. D. (2001). Family mediation: Facts, myths, and future prospects. Other than first edition Dorn, L. R., & Ryerson, D. (1984). Elements of a healthy childhood (2nd ed.). New York: Macmillan. Editor as author Dykes, S. L. (Ed.). (1983). Early developmental stages. Bethesda, MD: Norcroft Books. English translation Dykes, S. L. (1987). Cognition and development (J. Nuise, Trans.). New York: Academic Press. (Original work Article or chapter in edited book Eiser, S., Redpath, A., & Rogers, N. (1987). Outcomes of early parenting: Knowns and unknowns. In A. P. Corporate author as publisher National Institute of Mental Health. (1989). Manual of cognitive learning. Washington, DC: Author. Discontinuous pages Reichenbach, M. (1988, May 10). Mind and body of a child. Christian Science Monitor, pp. 4, 16. No author Understanding early years as a prerequisite to development. (1986, May 4). The Wall St. Journal, p. 8. Palmer, H., & Lewis, C. D. (1987, October). Using a common sense approach to evaluating behavior. Journal Article Continuous pagination Bibace, A., & Walsh P. (1984). Piaget revisited. Journal of Social Issues, 37, 618-625. Paginated by issue (i.e., each issue begins with p. 1) Billingham, C. T. (1986). Healthy behaviors for today's toddlers. Journal of Personality and Social Entire issue In Press Conover, T. N. (in press). Learning abilities of young children. Journal of Personality and Development. Publication, private organization Swift, A. C. (1985). Determining our children's future (Report no. 12). Milwaukee: Child Care of Wisconsin. Secondary source (in this ex., a government report) Williamson, F. J. (1983). Child psychology in the public schools (Contract No.100-4-62). Washington, DC: Full-Text Databases, Electronic Journals and the Internet The APA website offers excellent information excerpted from the 5th ed. of the APA Publication Manual (2001) on how to prepare citations for electronic materials. Includes numerous examples. Citing Material Within the Body of the Paper (AKA Parenthetical References) In APA style, citations to original sources are given in the text of the paper. They follow the information drawn from the source(s), and are enclosed in parentheses (""). To illustrate the use of parenthetical citation, we've constructed two sample paragraphs and a set of guidelines. Guidelines for parenthetical references Placement Place citations within sentences and paragraphs so that is is clear which material has come from which sources. Use pronouns and transitions to help you indicate whether several sentences contain material from the same source or from different sources: Symthe (1990) found that positioning influences ventilation. In his quasi-experimental study of 20 ICU patients, he used two methods to... However, his findings did not support the work of Karcher (1987) and Atley (1989) who used much larger samples to demonstrate that... Two or more authors When a work has a single author or two authors, cite their names and the date of publication whenever you refer to their work in the text. (Exception: Within a given paragraph, do not include the date after the initial citation unless you are citing other publications elsewhere in your paper by the same authors), Join two co-authors in the text with the word "and", but within parentheses use an ampersand (&). If authors have the same surname, always include their initial in each citation. When citing co-author groups of three to five authors, cite all names and the date in the initial citation, but only the first author followed by et al. and the date in the subsequent citations. For co-author groups of six or more authors, cite in the text only the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the date. If two or more six-author groups shorten to the same surname, cite the surnames of as many subsequent authors as need to distinguish between references. No author If a work has no author, use the first two or three words of the title (omitting a beginning article), and capitalize each word of your shortened version. Place the short title in quotation marks if it is an article or chapter, or underline it if it is a book or periodical. Substitute the short title for the name of the author. An article: ("Learned Helplessness," 1985). The full title appears alphabetically in the references list (without quotation marks) in the author position. When citing an edited work (a book, a report, a monograph) and that work has no author, the editor(s) assume the author position. Multiple references Alphabetize multiple references within parentheses and separate author groups with a semicolon. You may separate a major reference from others by inserting "see also" before remaining references, which appear alphabetically: Ex. (Patel, 1990; see also Arndt, 1986; Turgel, 1992). When selecting one or more authors to represent the work or findings of a large group of authors, inform the reader by including "e.g." within the citation: Ex. A large number of studies have shown that variations in brain waves are common (e.g., Engle, 1993a; Reuter, 1990, Trautman, 1987). Punctuation When an author-date citation appears at the end of a sentence, place the period after the parentheses. When an author-date citation appears mid-sentence, punctuation depends on the context. Spacing has changed in the new APA guidelines: only one space after periods, excepts for initials within parentheses. For. ex.: (U.S.) Other guidelines Indicate in the text when you are citing from a secondary source in one of the following ways: Place both authors in the same citation at the end of the sentence: (Smith, 1976, cited in Carrginton, 1989) or Cite them separately within the same sentence: Smith (1976) fornulated a theory about deviant behavior (cited in Carrington, 1989). Use appropriate verbs to distinguish between empirical and nonempirical works: "Zuckerman (1989) compared two groups of..." [empirical] vs. "Basil (1991) wrote extensively about..." [nonempirical]. Also inform the reader about background information: "For a review, see..." or "(see discussion in Ryan, 1990)." When citing more than one article published by an author in the same year, repeat the year but add a suffix to represent each article (Wilbourn, 1988a, 1988b). Suffixes are assigned according to the alphabetical order of the first major word in each title and also appear in the reference list, where the author's name is repeated for each article. |
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