Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Sophie Hackett
24/5/18
Contents
APA Style Sample ......................................................................................... 1
Introduction ................................................................................................ 1
Discussion .................................................................................................. 1
Examples .................................................................................................... 1
Format ........................................................................................................ 2
Summary .................................................................................................... 3
References .................................................................................................. 4
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APA Style Sample
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Introduction
Discussion
rather than indicating the author's name and page number, APA includes
author's name and date of publication. The page number, represented with a
p. or a pp., is only added to the citation when using a direct quote (not a
then place 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
Examples
interviews. However, it has been pointed out that the research was
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conducted in a selective, highly biased, way (Strong & Porter, 1998). All of
the interviewees have been called “exceptions to the norm” (Strong &
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
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include a reference list rather than a bibliography with your paper (APA,
resources that were consulted but not cited in the text as well as an
Summary
the APA 6th referencing style for all written documents. In addition to in text
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References
from http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-
references.aspx#Bibliography
Hosny, M., & Fatima, S. (2014). Attitude of students towards cheating and