APA Style

You will be quizzed on this.

What is APA? And why aren’t we using MLA?

• APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. You will have to use this in every class EXCEPT English.

• Learning it now will benefit you more than learning MLA which you will need only if you take advanced English classes.

The basics

• Cover sheet (title page) which contains:– Title of Paper– Your name– Date– Name of Class– Name of teacher

The basics

• Always double spaced. • ONLY double spaced between paragraphs. Do

NOT add another space.• Margins are left alone. Do not adjust• Header – name and page number for each

page• Paragraphs are indented one tab.

The basics

• Reference page at the end. – References are in alpha order according to the

author’s last name. – Need to be double spaced and with a hanging

indent.• Hanging indent: go to paragraph, indentation, special,

hanging.

Citations

• Because this is a research paper you must include research. This is NOT all your opinion. You have to back up your thoughts with facts from sources.

• Check the rubric for the specifics on the sources if you forget.

• Basically: 2 books, one encyclopedia, one newspaper, 3 internet sources (none can be Wiki)

Citations

• Please do NOT plagiarize. I will know if you do, there are websites that check your papers.

• Instead of plagiarizing, how about citing your sources.

• Paraphrasing a source: when you use the ideas or general facts, but not a word for word usage.

• You write the info and then in ( ) you put the author’s name and date. Or if using the author’s name first put only the date in the ( ).

Citations

• Paraphrasing:• Example• If a mentor still has to maintain all of his or her other

duties, it may be difficult to find time for the mentor and mentee to have quality interactions, (Jones, Harris, & Miles, 2009).

• According to Nash (2003), inexperienced coaches need to self-reflect in order to become more effective and often times being paired with a mentor can help the new coach develop self-reflection skills.

Citation

• Direct quotes– Put the entire direct quote in “quotations” and

then the authors name, date, and page number in the ( ).

– Example:– “This was a perfect mentoring marriage – our new

coach getting the help she needed and our former coach helping the program that he had built” (Hoch, 2007, p. 14).

How to write the reference page

• Please refer to the Super Cheat Sheet, or go online to my website and check out the extended link.

• There is a quiz on this, on Nov. 13.• You will need to use this format in your mini-

research papers. Which I will hand out shortly.