apa style basics

APA Style BasicsMrs. Santacroce

The APA Style

The APA Style was developed by social and behavioral scientists to standardize scientific writing.

Research reports Term papers Behavioral

studies Literature

reviews Case studies

The Reference List/Bibliography Common styles for citing sources are

MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian. Developed to standardize scholarly

types of writing. The purpose is to give credit to your

sources, as well as, help readers find the resources you used.

Therefore, the citations and Reference Lists should be complete and accurate.

Commonalities

References include

Who? Author(s) name(s) When? Date published What? Title of work Where? Publisher or publication data

Another sample

Rules to abide by…

Alphabetize each entry in a works cited list by the first letter, ignoring the articles A, An, and The.

Indent subsequent lines of entries one-half inch or 5 spaces.(Reverse or hanging indentation)

Rules to abide by…

Names: Use initials for first and middle names.

For articles, chapters and books, capitalize only the first word of the title and subtitle and proper nouns. Fully capitalize periodical titles.

Rules to abide by…

Publication dates use the order year, month day. The access date uses the order month day year. If no publication date is available, use "n.d." in place of date.

Double-Space the entire reference list.

DOI

Quick Reference Guide

Citation work sheet

Quick Guide

Whitewater High Library Resources

References

American psychological association.

(2010). Retrieved from

http://www.apastyle.org/