Transcript APA Style Tutorial- Part III: Referencing

APA Style Tutorial- Part
III: Referencing
Overview
 Purpose of a style guide
 Standardize the reporting of the resources
 Makes it easy to identify the resources
used and allow readers to find them
 Validates the research used by the author
Where to go for HELP!
 If there is a question about how to do either
a citation or a reference, the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological
Association is the reference source.
 To generate citations and references for a
resource:
http://citationmachine.net/leftpanel.php?r
eqstyleid=2_
 APA has a Web site that can also be useful:
http://www.apastyle.org/askexpert.html
The References List
 Reference sources used in your paper must
be listed. Start references on a new page
after the body of your text.
 List alphabetically by author’s last name (or
title, if author not known).
 Use a ½ inch hanging indent for each line
after the first line and double-spaced
throughout.
Sample References Page
References Page Caveats
 If you have more than one source by the same
author, arrange by year of publication
beginning with the earliest.
 Capitalization: titles of books and articles are
treated like sentences with only the first word
capitalized. (Proper nouns should be
capitalized, just as they would in a sentence,
e.g.:
Asante, M. (1995). African American history: A
journey of liberation. Maywood, NJ: People’s
Publishing Group.)
More Reference Page Caveats
 Authors’ first names are always reduced to
initials, eg: Akbar, N. (1996).
 Multiple authors are joined with an
ampersand “&” instead of with the word
“and”, eg: Allen, R. & Bagozzi, R. (2001).
 Single-author entries precede those with coauthors, eg: Allen, R. (2001) would be listed
before Allen, R. & Bagozzi, R. (2001).
Referencing a journal article from
print
Harrell, S. (2000). A multidimensional
conceptualization of racism-related stress:
Implications for the well-being of people of
color. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,
70, 42-57.
Author (Year). Title of the article. Journal
Title, Volume #, page numbers.
Referencing a journal article
retrieved online
Kessler, R. & Neighbors, H. (1986). A new
perspective on the relationship among race,
social class, and psychological distress.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 27,
107-115. Retrieved August 11, 2007 from
Academic Search Elite.
Author (Year). Title of article. Journal Title,
Volume #, page numbers. Retrieval
information.
Referencing a book
Hacker, A. (1992). Two nations: Black and
White, separate, hostile and unequal. New
York: Scribner.
Author (Year). Book title. Publisher.
Referencing a chapter of a book
Utsey, S., Bolden, M., & Brown, A. (2001). Visions of
revelation from the spirit of Frantz Fanon: A psychology
of liberation for counseling African Americans
confronting societal racism and depression. In J.
Ponterotto, J. Casas. L. Suzuki & L. Alexander (Eds.):
Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (pp. 311-336).
London: Sage Publications.
Author (Year). Chapter Title. Book editors (Eds.): Book
Title (page numbers). Publisher.
Referencing Online documents
Author (Year). Title of work. Retrieved
month, day, year from source.
 electronic sources include Web sites or Web pages,
newsgroups, Web- or e-mail based discussion groups and
newsletters
 If there is no date for a document, use (n.d.) in the year
section of the reference.