COMPETITIVE EFFECTIVENESS VSB 2020 SPRING 2011

LINDA HAUCK, BUSINESS LIBRARIAN

APA Citations for Business Research

Agenda

Why, what, where & whenTools for APA StyleReference List

Method to the madness Examples Your problems

In Text CitationsGraphs & Tables

APA for Business

Why: Academic Integrity, Intellectual Property law, Your audience

What: Books, Articles, published data, unpublished data or results, Reports, Web blogs, pages

Where: Reference List, In-text, Tables & Graphs

When: Included in report or presentation, fact, object, another’s idea, quote, don’t include background research not directly included in report

APA Resources

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.1

APA Style Online TutorialAPA Style BlogResearch & Documentation OnlineCiting Business Sources Using APA1. All citation and formatting rules found in this presentation are from this source. Check this area of each slide for a page reference.

Reference List: Formatting

List references in alphabetical order. Order several works by same author by year of

publication Order works by same author in same year by title Space evenly throughout. The first line of a citation should be flush left

Indent all subsequent lines (5 spaces).

References

Berelson, B. (1966). Content analysis in communication research. In B. Berelson,

and M. Janowitz (Eds.), Reader in Public Opinion and Communication (2nd ed.),

pp.260-266. New York, NY: Free Press.

Severin, W. J., and Tankard, J. W. (2001). Communication Theories: Origins,

Methods, and Uses in the Mass Media. New York, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.

Shyles, L. (2002). Deciphering Cyberspace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

•DATABASE CITATION UTILITIES•REFWORKS/SON OF CITATION MACHINE•BY HAND•RESOURCE TYPE

• Article, report, web page, blog, data, video•ALWAYS EDIT/REVIEW CITATIONS

Reference List Methods

Last, N. (2011). Title of the work. Publication Information. Electronic location DOI or home URL or database

Newspaper Article from Database

Report with Corporate Author Online

Report with Named Author

Report Corporate Author Online

Web posting, press release

Web posting, blog

Online magazine article

Newspaper Article Online

Data set

Interview Survey

If unpublished cite as personal communication in text only.

If posted to class wiki or blog, cite in reference list.

Team Reagle. (2011). [Student survey of attitudes toward American Eagle fashion at Villanova conducted January 10-14]. Unpublished raw data.

Unpublished Sources

In-TextAuthor-Date

The United States is becoming older and more diverse (Pew Social Trends Staff, 2008).

According to Mintel (2010), social media is the best way to reach millennials.

Graphs & Tables

Graphs & tables that you make.

Headings, labels, number consecutively

Graphs & tables found in other’s work.

Block Quote rules, indented, page noted

Number consecutively

Conclusion

There are many more types of documents that you may need to cite in APA style.

There are unusual situations you may encounter when preparing your reference list.

When in doubt, check a trustworthy APA resource, or the publication manual itself.

Reference librarians are available to help with APA citations.

The Writing Center can help throughout the writing process, including APA formatting.