APA REFERENCE FORMATMRS. BUJOLDHSB4M

APA APA stands for

American Psychological Association

APA References Page Requirements Your documentation page should be

titled References. The word ‘References’ should be

centred on the page In the header on the far right side

identify the title of the assignment and include pagination.

APA References Page Requirements Alphabetize your list by the author’s last

name or if there is no author, by the first word in the reference sentence.

Use hanging indentation. Only the first line of the reference starts at the margin, all other lines of the reference sentence is indented 5 spaces.

Double Space the whole reference list. Use a separate page/slide for references.

APA Sample

APA Citations You should use citations if you are

stating facts or statistics for example:

The population of Hamilton is 530,000 (Smith, 2005, p. 35).

The rainforests are disappearing more quickly every year (Brown, 1999, p.148).

APA Citations You should use citations if you are

providing someone else’s opinion, for example: “Chimpanzees are smarter than gorillas”

(Davis, 2001, p. 258). Freud is considered the father of

psychology (Mitchell, 2000, p. 16).