APA Citations

APA Citation

In this project, you will use APA citations to give credit to the sources from which your information came. You must have a Reference page at the end of your paper and use parenthetical citations within the research paper.

Reference Page

This is the last page of your research paper. It will be labeled References. The references will be listed in alphabetical order. You must have at least 3 types references listed on this page.

Solid databases for references:

  1. World Book

  2. Gayle

  3. Library of Congress

  4. Google Scholar/Advanced

  5. Tangi Library

Book:

Last, F. M. (Date Published). Book title. City, State: Publisher.

Journal:

Last, F. M. (Date Published). Article title. Journal Title, Volume(Issue), Page(s).

Magazine:

Last, F. M. (Date Published). Article title. Magazine Title, Volume(Issue), Page(s).

Website:

Last, F. M. (Date Published). Web page title. Retrieved from Homepage URL

Newspaper:

Last, F. M. (Year, Month Day published). Article title. Newspaper Title, Page(s).

Parenthetical Citations

In the research paper itself, if you use an idea or quote from someone you must give credit to the source. The standard for this is the author’s last name and the date.


Examples with an author:

Harlem had many artists and musicians in the late 1920s (Belafonte, 2008).

According to Belafonte, Harlem was full of artists and musicians in the late 1920s (2008).

Rallying to restore sanity was a revolutionary undertaking (Stewart, Colbert, & Oliver, 2010).


For parenthetical citations for sources without an author:

  • If a work has no author, include the first few words of the bibliography entry (in many cases, the title) and the year.

  • Use quotation marks around the titles of articles, chapters, and/or websites.

  • However, unlike in your reference list, parenthetical citations of articles and chapters should have all major words capitalized.

  • Italicize the titles of periodicals, books, brochures, or reports.

Example:

    • Statistics confirm that the trend is rising (“New Data,” 2013).

    • The report includes some bleak results (Information Illiteracy in Academia, 2009)


For parenthetical citations from a webpage:

Web page with author:

In-text citation

Heavy social media use can be linked to depression and other mental disorders in teens (Asmelash, 2019).

Web page with organizational author:

In-text citation

More than 300 million people worldwide are affected by depression (World Health Organization, 2018).

Web page with no date:

In-text citation

Establishing regular routines, such as exercise, can help survivors of disasters recover from trauma (American Psychological Association [APA], n.d.).

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