Citing and Referencing in APA Style

Mushvig Imamverdiyev

ADA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Purpose and Importance of Citations

•Allows professor to find research sources•Shows evidence of the breadth and depth of students’ reading•Gives credits to original thoughts and ideas that students have used in their work •Avoids loosing marks

In-text Citation and References

Research Topic ______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A recent report has revealed “……………………………………………………………………………” (Author, Year. p.32).________________________________________________

References

Author, A. (Year). Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Author, B. (Year). Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Author, C. (Year). Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

In-text Citation

Essential Information:

•Author’s last name

•Year of Publication

•Page number(s)

Quotation

The recent study shows that “to preserve the unique Kiwi experience prohibits the international students should not surpass the institutions’ capacity to support them” (Evans, 2002, p.21).

In-text Citation

Essential Information:

•Author’s last name

•Year of Publication

•Page number(s)

Paraphrase

According to the preserving unique Kiwi experience international students cannot expect effort more than institutions’ able to give them (Evans, 2002, p.21).

In-text Citation

In-text Citation

Citations from a secondary sources

As Evans (2002) asserts, “to preserve the unique Kiwi experience prohibits the international students should not surpass the institutions’ capacity to support them” (As cited in Jiang & Jones, 2010, p.26).

In-text Citation

Book with two authors(Shaffer & Ziyadov, 2011, p.15).

Book three to five authors

First citation: (Shaffer, Goltz & Ziyadov, 2011, p.15).Subsequent citation: (Shaffer et al., 2011, p.15).

Book six or more authors(Shaffer et al., 2011, p.15).

In-text Citation

Unknown author(Beyond the Resource Curse, 2011, p.15).

No page number(Shaffer & Ziyadov, 2011, para.1).

Undated book(Ziyadov, n.d., p.12).

An author’s two books in the same year(Ziyadov, 2011a, p.15).(Ziyadov, 2011b, p.32).

Reference List

Reference lists appear at the end of every academic paper and contain a detailed catalog of all the sources (books, journal articles, websites, etc.) that have been cited directly in a document.

Reference List

References

Evans, S. (2002). Too much of everything. Educational Review, May 29, pp. 20-23. doi:10.1002/asi.10255Shaffer,B., & Ziyadov, T. (2011). Beyond the resource curse. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,Inc. Retrieved from http://library.ada.edu.az

Electronic Journal Article

Evans, S., Henry, J., & Sue, Q. (2002). Too Much

of Everything. Educational Review, May 29,

pp. 20–23. Retrieved February 22, 2017

from http://library.ada.edu.az

OR

Evans, S., Henry, J., & Sue, Q. (2002). Too Much

of Everything. Educational Review, May 29,

pp. 20–23. doi:10.1019/j.jadohealth.2001.11.012

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Once the article is published and made available electronically, the publisher ascribes a unique DOI in order for everyone to get easy access to it. The DOI is usually placed on the first page of the electronic journal article, near the copyright notice.

Newspaper Article

Print version

Quinian, O.(2016, April 6). How universities can

teach their students to respect different

cultures. The Conversation, p.5

Electronic version

Quinian, O. (2016, April 6). How universities can

teach their students to respect different

cultures. The Conversation. Retrieved from

ERIC Database.

Newspaper Article

No Author

How universities can teach their students to respect

different cultures. (2016, April 6). How

universities can teach their students to respect

different cultures. The Conversation, p.5

Webpages

The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of

Azerbaijan. (2016). Main indicators of culture

2016. Retrieved from http://www.stat.gov.az/source