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Periodicals - Print & Online

Print - Basic Book Format Last name, First initial. (Year of Publication).

Book title. Publisher. DOI

Databases– Same as print

Print or Database Newspaper

Vestal, S. (2005, August 14). Professors worried about web plagiarism. Spokesman Review, A1, A5.

Print or Database Magazine- One Author

Bernstein, D. (1998, May). Closed books. National Review, 44(5), 24-27.

Print or Database Magazine - No Author

Radiation in Russia. (1993, August). Newsweek 148, 40-42.

Print or Database Academic Journal with DOI

Tate, J. D. (1971). Effects of memory time on succes-sive judgments. Psychological Bulletin, 76(6), 394-408. http://dx.doi.org.db29. linccweb.org/10.1037/h0031847

Online Newspaper Kershaw, S. (2008, October 8).The sum of your facial

parts. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com

Online Magazine Lynch, R. (2019, November 29). Driving us crazy:

Here are Orlando’s 50 most congested roadways. Orlando Business Journal.

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2019/ 11/29/driving-us-crazy-here-are-orlanando-

50most.html

Print - Basic Academic Journal Format

Last name, First initial. (Year). Article title. Title of Journal, Vol(iss), pages. DOI.

Databases -Same as print resource

References

Book - One Author

Schroeder, R. M. (2002). Nursing students are

the best. American Educators Press.

Book - Two Authors Strunk, W., & White, E. B. (1979). The ele-

ments of style (3rd ed.). Springer. Book - No Author The Chicago manual of style (14th ed.). (1993).

U of Chicago P. Book - Editor

Lethridge, S., & Cannon, C. R. (Eds.). (1980).

Bilingual nursing. Praeger.

Encyclopedia Imago, P. (2000). Epistemology. In E.N. Zalta

(Ed.) The Stanford encyclopedia of philoso-

phy: Vol 2. (6th ed., pp.245-257). Stanford

University. https://plato.stanford.edu/

archives/fall2020/entries/epistemology/

Chapter in an edited book

Roberts, C. C., Bancroft L. W, & Pope, T. L.

(2013). Musculoskeletal system. In T. L.

Pope (Ed.), Aunt Minnie's atlas and imaging

-specific diagnosis (pp. 86-141). Wolters

Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Carroll, L. (1916). Alice’s adventures in Wonder-

land. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19033

Online - Basic Book Format

Last name, First initial. (Year of publication).

Book title. Publisher. URL

Books - Print & Online

Part of a Website - Individual author

Strong, M. J. (2016, December 30). Set your pur-

pose, reach your goals. Mayo Clinic. https://

www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-

health/in-depth/set-your-purposereach-your-

goals/art-20269956

Part of a Website - Group author,

no publication date

Southern Poverty Law Center. (n.d.). Voting

rights. https://www.splcenter.org/our-issues/

votingrights

Government Document

National Drug Intelligence Center. (2010, Febru-ary). National drug threat assessment 2010. http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs 38/38661/index.htm

News Website Avramova, N. (2019, January 3).The secret to a

long, happy, healthy life? Think age-positive. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/health/respect-toward-elderly-leads-to-long-life-intl/index.html

Blog

Smith, C. (2019, November 14). Rare desert ele-phants survive Namibia’s harshest drylands. African Wildlife Foundation. https://www.awf.org/blog/rare-desert-elephants-

Online - Basic Periodical Format Last name, First initial. (Year of Publication). Arti-

cle title. Publication Title, vol(iss), pages. doi

OR url

Websites and Other...

An entry for a non-periodical publication on the Web usually contains most of the following components, in sequence:

1. Name of the author, compiler, director, editor, nar-rator, performer, or translator of the work.

2. Date of publication (year, month, day, as availa-ble); no date use (n.d.)

3. Title of the work

4. Title of Website

5. URL

SEE EXAMPLES BELOW

The digital object identifier (DOI)

is a unique number for a resource

such as an article, book, or other

entity.

...Other

Film or Video Daniels, L. (Director). (2009). Precious [DVD].

Lionsgate. In text citation -(Daniels, 2009,

46:30).

Streaming Video from a Library Database

British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide Learn-

ing. (2004). Living with ADHD [Video]. Films on

Demand

TED Talk from youtube TED. (2012, March 16). Brene Brown: Listening to

shame [Video]. YouTube. https://

ww.youtube.com /watch?v=psN1DORYYVO

Tweet Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses

[@MedSurgNurses]. (2012, November 14). Diabetes substantially affects school dropout

rates and wages: http://inur.se/UoTvAD. [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/MedSurgNurses/tatus/268726981011595264

Facebook Post Publication Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses. (2012,

November 7). Four ways patient engagement reduces health care costs. Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/MedSurgNurses/ posts/160659317413799

Podcast Vendantam, S. (Host). (2015-present). Hidden

brain [Audio podcast]. NPR. https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain

Lecture

George, J. (2020). Lecture chapter one: History, theory, and research strategies. Retrieved February 2, 2020 from Canvas https://wvc.iinstructure.com/courses/1152207

Personal Communication

Cite in text only—not on Reference list (R. Seguin

(personal communication, November 26, 2019)

Check the APA Publication Manu-al, 7th Ed. for more details! Locat-ed at the Reference Desk or Reserves

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For help see: Barbara Oldham or Kristen Hughes

In-text Citations When referring to the work of others in the text of your paper, whether quoting or paraphrasing, use parenthe-tical citations. For example:

Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke, 2008, p. 395).

Burke (2008, p. 395) stated that human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals."

Check the “Publication Manual, 7th Ed.” for more details! Located at the Reference Desk or Reserves

APA 7th Edition

Guidelines General:

Typed, double spaced text, 1 inch

margins on all sides.

Legible 10-12 point font - like Times New Ro-man, Courier, or Arial.

Include a header with page # aligned right.

Begin each paragraph with a .5 indent.

Sections of your paper: Title Page—Title of your paper, author’s name, class name. Professors name. The page header on the title page should look like

Abstract—Begins on a new page and 150-250 words that concisely sums up your essay.

Main Body

Double-space and center the title of your paper. Double-space again, align left and begin the first line of text.

Reference Page:

Begin this list on a new page at the end of your paper.

Label the page References, centered at the top of the page.

Alphabetical order entries

Hanging Indents on all references

Double-space all citations - don’t skip the lines between entries. No extra space between para-graphs

List all authors up to 20 check hand-book for format.

Always follow your

instructor’s guidelines!

What should your paper look like?

APA SLIDE

TUTORIAL

apastyle.org/learn

For more info - go to the Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Note: Examples have been

compressed to save space.

All citations should be

double-spaced on your

Reference Page.

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Title Page:

Abstract: Valencia College Library

Citation Guides Valenciacollege.edu/library