APA
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IN-TEXT CITATION:
Referenced source material (Author Last Name, Date, Page #).
Example: Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth, 1800, 263).
Multiple Authors: List all the authors in the signal phrase or in parentheses the first time you cite the source. Use the ampersand in the parentheses.
Example: (Kernis, Cornell, Sun, Berry, & Harlow, 1993)In subsequent citations, only use the first author's last name followed by "et al." in the signal phrase or in parentheses.
(Kernis et al., 1993)
No Known Author: If the work does not have an author, cite the source by its title or use the first word or two in the parentheses. Titles of books and reports are italicized or underlined; titles of articles, chapters, and web pages are in quotation marks.
Example: A similar study was done of students learning to format research papers ("Using APA," 2001).
IN-TEXT CITATION:
Referenced source material (Author Last Name, Date, Page #).
Example: Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth, 1800, 263).
Multiple Authors: List all the authors in the signal phrase or in parentheses the first time you cite the source. Use the ampersand in the parentheses.
Example: (Kernis, Cornell, Sun, Berry, & Harlow, 1993)In subsequent citations, only use the first author's last name followed by "et al." in the signal phrase or in parentheses.
(Kernis et al., 1993)
No Known Author: If the work does not have an author, cite the source by its title or use the first word or two in the parentheses. Titles of books and reports are italicized or underlined; titles of articles, chapters, and web pages are in quotation marks.
Example: A similar study was done of students learning to format research papers ("Using APA," 2001).
BASIC FORMAT:
Books - Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals) - Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article.Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy
Website - Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article.Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). From http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
Images - Author (Role of Author). (Year image was created). Title of work [Type of work], Retrieved Month Day, Year, from: URL (address of website)
Books - Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals) - Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article.Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy
Website - Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article.Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). From http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
Images - Author (Role of Author). (Year image was created). Title of work [Type of work], Retrieved Month Day, Year, from: URL (address of website)