APA Referencing

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APA Referencing
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Two types of citation

1. Internal (in the body of your text)
2. Reference list (at the end of your work)

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Internal Citation

• General format
• This is the sentence with the fact (Author,
  year).
• Example
• Dimitri Mendeleev constructed the first periodic
  table (Babaev, 2009).
• http//www.mendcomm.org/mendeleev.aspx

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Reference List

• For a website
• Author, A. A., Author, B. B. (Date of
  publication). Title of document. Retrieved from
  http//Web address
• Example
• Babaev, E.V. (2009). Dimitri Mendeleev A short
  CV, and a story of life. Retrieved from
  http//www.mendcomm.org/mendeleev.aspx

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• Sometimes the author is not a person, but an
  organization.
• a) Internal
• Magnesium was discovered by Joseph Black in 1755
  (Royal Society of Chemistry, n.d.).
• b) Reference List
• Royal Society of Chemistry. (n.d.) Periodic
  table History. Retrieved from
  http//www.rsc.org/periodic-table/history

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• For a book
• Author, A. A., Author, B. B. (Year of
  publication). Title of work Capital letter also
  for subtitle. Location Publisher.
• For a book, all of this information is available
  at the front of the book, and on the spine of the
  book.
• Practice right now Write an APA reference for
  your textbook.

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• Author, A. A., Author, B. B. (Year of
  publication). Title of work Capital letter also
  for subtitle. Location Publisher.
• Blake, L., Mazza, M., Mills, A., Mustoe, F.,
  Ross, J., Stiff, T. (2009). ON science 9.
  Toronto McGraw-Hill Ryerson.

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Variations

• What to do when some info is missing?
• If there is no date provided, write (n.d.) in the
  place of a date.
• Example This is the sentence (Chui, n.d.).

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• If there is no author listed, move the title to
  the author position in the reference. Use the
  title in the internal citation.
• Reference list
• Mercury facts interesting facts about the
  planet Mercury (n.d.). Retrieved from
  http//space-facts.com/mercury/
• Internal
• One year on Mercury is 88 days long (Mercury
  facts, n.d.).