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Citing Sources in APA Style
  • Lucy Holman
  • Langsdale Library
  • October 2, 2008

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Introduction
  • APA citation style is widely used throughout the
    social sciences (psychology, criminal justice,
    sociology, etc)
  • Follow style manual closely may have to merge
    two - three examples
  • Will become more natural with time

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General Format
  • Periodical
  • Author, A. A., Author, B.B., Author, C.C.
  • (year). Article title. Periodical Title,
    vol
  • (issue), xx-xx.
  • Nonperiodical (book, video, report)
  • Author, A.A. (year). Work title. Place of
  • publication Publisher.
  • Chapter
  • Author, A. A. (year). Chapter title. In A.
    Editor
  • (Ed). Book title (pp. xx-xx). Place of
  • publication Publisher.

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General Format online sources
  • Online Periodical
  • Author, A. A., Author, B.B. (year). Article
  • title. Periodical title, vol (issue),
    xx-xx.
  • Retrieved month day, year from source.
  • this can be a database title or URL
  • Document
  • Author, A. A. (year). Title. Retrieved
  • month day, year from source.

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Additional features
  • Edition
  • .Book title (6th ed.). .
  • Volumes
  • ..Book title (Vols. 1-6). .
  • Edited work
  • Editor, A. A., Editor, B. B. (Eds.). (Year).
    Title
  • Corporate author
  • University of Baltimore School of Law. (Year).
    ..

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Examples Periodicals
  • Samson, S., Pengelly, V., Brown, B.
  • (1997). The collaborative
  • advantage The library and
  • computing services at the University
  • of Montana. RQ, 36 (3), 370-374.

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Examples Book/Chapter
  • Myers, I. B., Myers, P. B. (1990). Gifts
  • differing (10th anniversary ed.). Palo
    Alto,
  • CA Consulting Psychologists Press.
  • Mech, T. F. (2000). The organizational and
  • historical context of the chief
    information
  • officers position. In L. Hardesty
    (Ed.),
  • Books bytes and bridges Libraries and
  • computer centers in academic institutions
  • (pp. 26-37). Chicago American Library
  • Association.

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Examples Electronic Resources
  • Subscription Database (Book chapter)
  • Teague, J. (1998). Personality type, career
  • preference and implications for computer
  • science recruitment and teaching. In
  • Proceedings of the third Australasian
  • conference on computer science education
  • (pp. 155-163). Retrieved October 1, 2008
  • from ACM Digital Library database.

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Examples Electronic Resourcs
  • Subscription Database (Article)
  • Neuman, G. A., Wagner, S. H., Christiansen, N.
    D. (1999). The relationship between work-team
    personality composition and the job performance
    of teams. Group Organization Management, 24
    (1), 28-45. Retrieved September 26, 2008 from
    ABI Inform Global database.

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Electronic Resources
  • Professional paper from Internet
  • Edwards, S. H. (n.d.). Good mental models are
    necessary for understandable software. Retrieved
    September 30, 2008 from http//74.125.45.104/sear
    ch?qcachevfhVud5HMugJftp//gandalf.umcs.maine.e
    du/pub/WISR/wisr7/proceedings/ps/edwards.ps22men
    talmodels2222informationretrieval22hlenct
    clnkcd27glus

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Practice samples
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Additional Resources (online)
  • APA Style.org (includes links to electronic
    references, FAQs, etc)
  • Citing Electronic and Print Sources
  • How to Cite Sources in APA Style
  • Pocket Style Manual

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Additional Resources (print)
  • Amato, C. J. (2002). The world's easiest guide to
    using
  • using the APA (3rd. ed.). Corona, CA
    Stargazer
  • Publishing (XBF 76.7 .A468).
  • Concise rules of APA style (2005). Washington
    American
  • Psychological Association. (XBF 76.7 .C66
    2005
  • READY REFERENCE).
  • Publication manual of the American Psychological
  • Association (5th ed.) (2001). Washington
    American
  • Psychological Assn. (XBF 76.7 .P83 2001
    READY
  • REFERENCE).

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Good luck with APA!
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