Professional Documents
Culture Documents
) Style Guide
Business Resources
Overview
• Purpose of a style guide
– standardize
– easier to identify the resources used
– provides validation to the research
• Somewhat arbitrary
– APA does not always “make sense” but …
Overview
• 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.
• APA has a Web site that can also be useful
http://www.apastyle.org/askexpert.html
ONLINE
RESOURCES
Academic Search Premier
• Citation:
(Statistics Canada, 2002)
Structure of a reference and citation:
Legislation
• Reference:
Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985 c.27 s.6
• Citation:
(Competition Act ), 1985
Structure of a reference and citation:
Annual report
• Reference:
WestJet Airlines. (2002). Annual report to
shareholders, Calgary, AB: Author.
• Citation:
(WestJet Airlines, 2002)
Structure of a reference and citation:
Online documents - Same author
Health Canada. (n.d.a). Physical activity in
Canada. Retrieved January 31, 2004,
from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/
fitness/work/activity_e.html
Health Canada. (n.d.b). Supporting material
Retrieved January 31, 2004, from http://
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/fitness/work/
supp_material_e.html
• Citation:
Health Canada (n.d.a) reported that ...
Conclusions
• Take close look at handout
– pay particular attention to the last page
• reference list of a paper
– hanging paragraph format
– double space entire paper, including reference
list
Conclusions
• Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (5th ed.)
– available in the Reference Collection of Library