Transcript APA Citation

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Direct quotes
Summaries
Paraphrases
Videos
Movies
Music
Art (clip art, photos)
News articles
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Graphs
Charts
Cartoons
Always write down your sources
for:
 Books
 Pictures
 Photos
 Articles
 Web pages
 Recipes
 Videos
 Songs
 Movies
 Graphs
 Surveys
 charts
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What should you write down?
 Title of book
 Title of article
 Author’s name(s)
 Date published/written
 Type of sources – i.e. movie,
video, website, map, photo
 Published
 url
 Date url last updated
 City of publication
 Page numbers
 What
are you citing
 Paraphrases
 Summaries
 Direct quotes
 Photos, artwork, cartoons,
movies
 Not citing = plagiarism
Author’s
name(s)
Date of publication
Page #(s) for direct quote
Website name if no author
Type
in brackets directly
following quote, summary
or paraphrase.
End of sentence
punctuation follows the last
bracket
 The
cruelty of the South is
described in the song, “Southern
Man” (Young, 1970).
 Neil
Young describes the cruelty
of the South in “Southern
Man”(1970).
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The line, “with the best laid plan” (Young,
1970, l 3), suggests that the South’s plan
for segregation was not going to work.
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In the line, “with the best laid plan”
(1970, l3), Neil Young suggests that the
South’s plan for segregation was not
going to work.
 (Nash
& Young, 1974) – more than
1
 (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,
1974) – 3 to 5
 (Young et al, 1974) – 6 or more
"Southern man" suggests that young
white men from the South should look
within themselves and see all the terrible
things they have done. (Lyric
interpretations, 2009)
 Use the article/web page title or if
lengthy, a part of this title
 Notice only the first word is capitalized
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(Young, n.d.)
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(Author, date) – summary, paraphrase
 (Author, date, p#) – direct quote if page
numbers available
 (Author, date, para.#) or (Author, Date,
Section heading) – direct quote if no
page numbers - Use paragraph # or
section name)
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(Web Page/article name, date) –
summary, paraphrase
 (Page/article name, date, p#) – direct
quote if page numbers available
 (Web Page/article name, date, para.#)
or (Web Page/article name, , Date,
Section heading) – direct quote if no
page numbers - Use paragraph # or
section name)
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If an entire web site is being cited, you
do not need to include the web site in
your reference list.
 Instead, include the website in your text
(http://csny.com)
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Use the same in-text format as you would
for text
 (Artist/Illustrator/Photographer’s Name,
date)
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(Sheehan, n.d.)
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Another student mentioned “she was
tired of all the negative topics” (C.
Davidson, personal communication,
March 9, 2011).
(Producer & Director, year)
 Example: Mississippi Burning - (Zollo &
Parker, 1988)
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SFU
Citation Guide
Seneca Libraries APA
APA Style
Norton site