APA style

Citations & Referencing

Citations & Referencing

• Which referencing style are you using?• Check your course guide• Check with lecturer if unsure

• Understand what information you need to keep for your assignment

In text citations look different depending on the referencing style used. Use them when you have referred to someone else’s work/ideas in some way

• APA - author, date (Smith, 2009)• MLA – author, page number (Smith 23)• Australian – author, date (Smith 2009)• Chicago – footnotes, author, short title,

page number

In Text Citations

1

Smith, In-text Citations, 23.

In Text Citations

It seems that “a thief bungled an attempt to break into a car in Adelaide, locking himself inside the vehicle as police arrived” (OddSpot, 2009, p. 1).

Direct Quote

In Text Citations

According to the Oddspot (2009), when Adelaide police responded to a car break-in, they arrived to find the thief had inadvertently locked himself in the car.

Author in a sentence

In Text Citations

Author not in a sentence

When Adelaide police responded to a car break-in, they arrived to find the thief had inadvertently locked himself in the car (OddSpot, 2009).

Paraphrasing

“A thief bungled an attempt to break into a car in Adelaide, locking himself inside the vehicle as police arrived.”

When Adelaide police responded to a car break-in, they arrived to find the thief had inadvertently locked himself in the car.

Different structure and words.

Reference List APA

1. Title header appropriate to style used.

2. Alphabetised3. Rules for multiple

listings of same author5. Break URLs in

appropriate place6. Indent full citations

running over single line.

A reference list should:

• Commence on a separate page• Title header according to citation style used

• References – APA, Australian style• Works cited – MLA• Bibliography - Chicago

• Appear in alphabetical order• Take its publication details from the title

page of a work, not the cover

Reference examples

Books

Berger, P. (1998). Internet for active learners: curriculum-based strategies for K-12 (2nd ed.). Chicago: American Library Association.

Author, A. A. (Year). Title. City, State/Country: Publisher

Chapter of a bookBETWEEN THESHEETS, IN THE STREETS: QUEER,LESBIAN, GAY DOCUMENTARY

Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs

Visible Evidence, Volume 1

Between the Sheets,In the Streets

Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary

Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs, editors

University of Minnesota PressMinneapolisLondon

Copyright 1997 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

Published by the University of Minnesota Press111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN

Marc Siegel

Documentary that dare/not speak its name: Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures

pp. 91 - 106

Siegel, M. (1997). Between the sheets, in the streets: Queer, lesbian, gay documentary. In C. Holmlund & C. Fuchs (Eds.), Documentary that dare/not speak its name: Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: Vol. 1 of Visible Evidence. (pp. 91-106). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Author, A. A. (Year). Chapter title. In B. B. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (pp. #-#). City, State/Country. Publisher

Journal articles

Imrie, B. (1995). Assessment for learning: quality and taxonomies. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 20 (2), 195-201.

Author, A. A. (Year). Article title. Journal Name, volume(issue), #-#.

On-line databases

Lavery, J., & Livingston, B. (1999). Introducing the Internet to adult learners. Computers in libraries, 19 (4), pp.4. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.

Author, A. A. (Year). Article title. Journal Name, volume(issue), #-#. Doi:##### or Retrieved from database name or URL

Internet sites

Berger, P. (1998). Internet for active learners: curriculum-based strategies for K.12. Retrieved July 17, 2000, from http://www.ala.org/ICONN/i_pubs.html

Author, A. A. (Year of publication or Year, Month, Day of posting/revision) Title or [Description]. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL.

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