Using APA Style American Psychological Association What is

Using APA Style American Psychological Association

What is APA? • Standard system for giving credit to others for their contribution to your work • Documentation style • Parenthetical – citations to sources appear in your text • Let’s readers see citation right away • Saves you from doing footnotes or endnotes

Parenthetical in-text citations must include • Author’s last name • Date of publication • Page number(s) – If you are directly quoting the author.

In Text Citation Options • Idea Focused • Researchers have studied how children represent mathematical problems (Alibali, Phillips, & Fischer, 2009; Siegler, 1976). • Author Focused • Alibali, Phillips, and Fischer (2009) asked, “Did the participants adopt the taught strategies? ” (p. 96). • Chronology Focused • In 2009 Alibali, Phillips, and Fischer reported that third- and fourth-grade students improved their problem representation when they were taught the equalize strategy but did not improve their problem representation when they were taught the addsubtract strategy. • No Author • (Research initiatives, , n. d. ) (Sleep Medicine, 2001)

References • Book – 1 Author • Baxter, C. (1997). Race equality in health care and education. Philadelphia, PA: Ballière Tindall. • Book – 2 Authors • Hyde, J. S. , & Delamater, J. (2008). Human sexuality (10 th ed. ). New York, NY: Mc. Graw-Hill. • Book – Editors • Castellanos, J. , Gloria, A. M. , & Kamimura, M. (Eds. ). (2006). The Latina/o pathway to the Ph. D. : Abriendo caminos. Sterling, VA: Stylus. • Magazine/Newspaper • Barringer, F. (2009, Sept. 14). Hawaii tries green tools in remaking power grid. The New York Times. Retrieved from http: //www. nytimes. com

• Blog Posting • Lopez-Duran, N. (2009, August 27). Re: Gender and age differences in the symptomatology of child depression [Web log message]. Retrieved from Child Psychology Research Blog, http: //www. child-psych. org/ • Publication – Private Organization • Swift, A. C. (1985). Determining our children's future (Report no. 12). Milwaukee: Child Care of Wisconsin. • Website, no author, no date of publication • Research initiatives. (n. d. ). Retrieved January 11, 2007, from MIT, Comparative Media Studies website, http: //cms. mit. edu/research/index. php

General Format • 12 pt Times New Roman font • Double spaced • 1 inch margins • Title page • • Title of Paper Your Name Course Name Date

• Reference page • References (centered) • Listed in alphabetical order • First line of each source is NOT indented, all other lines are indented 5 spaces • Page numbers and header • First two or three words of your title • Page numbers in top right corner https: //owl. english. purdue. edu/owl/section/2/10/

Basic Writing • Commas • When in doubt, leave it out • Capitalization • Formal names • Start of sentences • Species names • Italicize scientific names • Less is more! • Subject/verb agreement • Singular/plural • Past/present