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6 Citation Style
In the process of completing your assignments, you need to document all the sources used in your paper. There are many ways of documenting sources within the text of a paper and in the reference section at the end of your paper. OUM citation style is based on the American Psychological Association (APA) format. Types of resources or references may be as follows: a. Books; b. Journals; c. c Speci topics in a book; d. Websites; and e. Other types of materials.
Authors Name. (Year). Title of book (Edition). Place of publication: Publisher. Example: Haig, M. (2001). The B2B e-commerce handbook: How to transform your business-to-business global marketing strategy. London: Kogan Page.
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1st Authors Name, & 2nd Authors Name. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Place of publication: Publisher. Example: Boone, L. E., & Kurtz, D. (2001). Contemporary marketing (10th ed.). Forth Worth, TX.: Harcourt Colleges Publishers.
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1st Authors Name, 2nd Authors Name, & 3rd Authors Name. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Place of publication: Publisher. Example: Allen, C., Kania, D., & Yaeckel, B. (2001). One-to-one web-marketing: Build a relationship marketing strategy one customer at a time (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley.
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1st Authors Name (et al.). (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Place of publication: Publisher.
Example: Amrine, H. et al. (2001). One-to-one web-marketing: Build a relationship marketing strategy one customer at a time (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley.
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Edited Books
Editors Name (Ed.). (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book. Place of publication: Publisher. Example: Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. You should know how to distinguish between the term edition and impression or reprint. Edition denotes that the text has been amended, while impression or reprint indicates no changes in the text. Always cite the edition date as the date of publication, not the impression or reprint date. Example: 1st edition date: 1968 5th impression or reprint: 2000 Please use the date 1968, as shown below: Cruise, T. J. (1968). Educational technology. Kuala Lumpur: Pelangi Press.
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Allen, C., Kania, D., & Yaeckel, B. (Eds.). (2001). One-to-one web-marketing: Build a relationship marketing strategy one customer at a time (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley. In Ebrary (OUM Digital Collection). Millholon, M., & Murray, K. (2001). Microsoft Word 2002 inside out. Redmond, WA.: Microsoft Press. In Books24x7 (OUM Digital Collection).
Name of author of chapter. (Year). Title of chapter: Chapter number in Name of main author or editor of book, Title of book (Edition, pp. first page last page). Place of publication: Publisher.
Example: Kuegler, T. J., Jr. (2002). Web advertising: Banners and beyond; Chapter 12 in T. J. Kuegler, Jr. (Ed.), Web advertising and marketing (3rd ed., pp. 98-104). Boston, Mass.: Premier Press. In Books24x7 (OUM Digital Collection).
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1st Authors Name, & 2nd Authors Name. (Year). Title of chapter: Subtitle of chapter. In 1st Editors Name & 2nd Editors Name, Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition, pp. first page last page). Place of publication: Publisher. Example: Cruise, J. T., & Shaharuddin Salleh. (1999). Video: Effective use in creating learning material. In J. L. Hunters & M. K. Brown (Eds.), Multimedia: Applications and implications (2nd ed., pp. 98-104). Kuala Lumpur: Pelangi Press.
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1st Authors Name, 2nd Authors Name, & 3rd Authors Name. (Year). Title of chapter: Subtitle of chapter. In 1st Editors Name, 2nd Editors Name & 3rd Editors Name, Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition, pp. first page last page). Place of publication: Publisher. Example: Cruise, J. T., Shaharuddin Salleh, & Tan, T. H. (2000). Hypermedia authoring: Knowledge constructing through hypermedia authoring. In Ahmad Albab, J. L. Hunters & M. K. Brown (Eds.), Authoring tools: Educational technology (3rd ed., pp. 86-98). Kuala Lumpur: Pelangi Press.
Authors Name. (Year). Title of article in the journal. Title of Journal: Subtitle of Journal, Volume (Issue), first page last page. Example: Kargoankar, P. (2002). Web usage, advertising and shopping: Relationship patterns. Internet Research: Electronic Networking and Policy, 12(2), 191-204.
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1st Authors Name, & 2nd Authors Name. (Year). Title of article in the journal. Title of Journal: Subtitle of Journal, Volume (Issue), first page last page. Example: Klimoski, R., & Palmer, S. (1993). The ADA and the hiring process in organizations. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 45(2), 10-36.
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1st Authors Name, 2nd Authors Name, & 3rd Authors Name. (Year). Title of article in the journal. Title of Journal: Subtitle of Journal, Volume (Issue), first page last page. Example: Saywitz, K. J., Berliner, L., & Cohen, J. A. (2000). Treatment for sexually abused children and adolescents. American Psychologist, 55, 1040-1049.
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1st Authors Name et al. (Year). Title of article in the journal. Title of Journal: Subtitle of Journal, Volume (Issue), first page last page. Example: Cruise, J. T. et al. (2000). Dolly: Implications on human cloning. Journal of Genetics, 1, 212-222.
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Garfinkel, D., & Chowlewka, K. (2002). Making the most of it: How to squeeze more profits from the web. Sales and marketing management, 154(3), 19. In Ebsco (OUM Digital Collection).
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Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to the nature of human rights. Journal of Buddhist ethics, 8. [Online]. Available: http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html. [2001, February 20].
Nielsen, M. E. (n.d.). Notable people in psychology of religion. [Online]. Available: http://www.psywww.com/psyrelig/psyrelpr.htm. [2000, August 3]. For websites, if the date the page was created (or updated) is not given, put "n.d." (no date) in the citation in place of the date. (This is not to be confused with the date you retrieved it.) If a document has no author, the citation begins with the title of the document: The de Grummond childrens literature collection. (1999). [Online]. Available: http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/. [2000, February 24].
Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4. iii. Encyclopaedia Article
Bergman, P. G. (1993). Relativity. In The new encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. 26, pp. 501- 508). Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Gibson, C. C. (2005). Impact of the larger social context on the distance learner. In S. Allsop (Ed.) International Council for Distance Education: One world many voices: Quality in open and distance learning (pp. 279-282). Chicago: Milton Keynes. v. Unpublished Conference Paper
Martins, J. R. (2004, April). Working with the terminally ill: An integrated theoretical model. Paper presented at the American Counseling Association World Conference, San Diego, CA.