apa style basics
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APA Style BasicsMrs. Santacroce
The APA Style
The APA Style was developed by social and behavioral scientists to standardize scientific writing.
Research reports Term papers Behavioral
studies Literature
reviews Case studies
The Reference List/Bibliography Common styles for citing sources are
MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian. Developed to standardize scholarly
types of writing. The purpose is to give credit to your
sources, as well as, help readers find the resources you used.
Therefore, the citations and Reference Lists should be complete and accurate.
Commonalities
References include
Who? Author(s) name(s) When? Date published What? Title of work Where? Publisher or publication data
Another sample
Rules to abide by…
Alphabetize each entry in a works cited list by the first letter, ignoring the articles A, An, and The.
Indent subsequent lines of entries one-half inch or 5 spaces.(Reverse or hanging indentation)
Rules to abide by…
Names: Use initials for first and middle names.
For articles, chapters and books, capitalize only the first word of the title and subtitle and proper nouns. Fully capitalize periodical titles.
Rules to abide by…
Publication dates use the order year, month day. The access date uses the order month day year. If no publication date is available, use "n.d." in place of date.
Double-Space the entire reference list.
DOI
Quick Reference Guide
Citation work sheet
Quick Guide
Whitewater High Library Resources
References
American psychological association.
(2010). Retrieved from
http://www.apastyle.org/