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REFERENCING
6th edition
Keeley Jones
Table of Contents
DISCUSSION ...................................................................................................................... 2
EXAMPLES ......................................................................................................................... 2
FORMAT ............................................................................................................................. 3
SUMMARY.......................................................................................................................... 4
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................... 5
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The American Psychological Association (APA) style is primarily used
key points. This paper discusses the APA in detail. Look at Referencing
Help sheet – there is a sentence that needs to be added here. You need to
remember to insert the two citations with RefWorks (do not just copy and
Discussion
APA uses parenthetical (or in-text) citations within sentences, but rather
than indicating the author's name and page number, APA includes author's
pp., is only added to the citation when using a direct quote (not a summary
the date of publication in parentheses directly after the name. If the name is
not mentioned include the author's name and date in parentheses at the end
of the source material. And, if you use a direct quote, place the page number
Examples
However, it has been pointed out that the research was conducted in a
selective, highly biased, way (Strong & Porter, 1998). All of the
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interviewees have been called “exceptions to the norm” (Strong & Porter,
1998, p. 5).
sentence, the second example paraphrases authors that are not named in the
sentence, and the third example provides a direct quote (thus the inclusion
of the page numbers) but also does not identify the authors within the
sentence. If the authors were identified within the sentence in the third
and only the page numbers would be in the parentheses at the end of the
quote.
Format
Finally, the bibliographic page in APA style differs from MLA, what
APA calls the Reference page. You will notice a few immediate differences
from the MLA Works Cited format. With APA you include the initial of the
author's first name rather than the complete name, the publication date
are not surrounded with quotation marks. The lists are still alphabetized by
author's last name (or title in the absence of an author) and the first line is
flush left while subsequent lines in the same entry are indented in
include a reference list rather than a bibliography with your paper (APA,
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2017). A reference list consists of all sources cited in the text of a paper
whereas a bibliography may include resources that were consulted but not
Summary
APA 6th referencing style for all written documents. In addition to in text
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References (Manually inserted into RefWorks. At the end, you need to
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-
references.aspx#Bibliography