Documenting Sources APA Format

Using & Documenting Sources Citation: giving credit for an idea or fact in the text of your report Documentation: giving the bibliographic information that readers would need to go back to your original sources

Citing Sources in Your Text If the author’s name is in your text, put the date in parenthesis –As Wesson notes (1999),.... –According to Dole and Wilfred (1998),.... If the author’s name is not used in the sentence, put the author’s name in the parenthesis with the date. –We know that... (Wesson, 1999). –Research (Dole and Wilfred, 1998) shows....

Referring to Sources in Your Text Page numbers are needed for quotations. –According to Dole & Wilfred, “Your writing speaks volumes about you” (1998, p. 50). Page numbers are not needed for paraphrases. –Dole & Wilfred (1998) point out that your writing indicates much about your abilities.

Creating A Reference List List everything you’ve cited in your text, but only what you have cited. Arrange references alphabetically by the author’s last name. If you have more than one source by the same author, arrange them chronologically.

Creating a Reference for a Magazine or Newspaper Article Gerard, A. J. (2000, April). How photography will rescue e-commerce. PC Photo, Author’s name 2.Date 3.Title of article 4.Title of magazine or newspaper 5.Page numbers

Creating a Reference for a Magazine or Newspaper Article, continued Gerard, A. J. (2000, April). How photography will rescue e-commerce. PC Photo, Author’s Name Last name first Comma after last name Initials, not first and middle names

Creating a Reference for a Magazine or Newspaper Article, continued Gerard, A. J. (2000, April). How photography will rescue e-commerce. PC Photo, Date Year Comma after year Month or season Period after closing parenthesis

Creating a Reference for a Magazine or Newspaper Article, continued Gerard, A. J. (2000, April). How photography will rescue e-commerce. PC Photo, Title of article Use lower case Capitalize only the first letter of the first word Don’t use quotation marks Use a period at the end of the title

Creating a Reference for a Magazine or Newspaper Article, continued Gerard, A. J. (2000, April). How photography will rescue e-commerce. PC Photo, Title of magazine or newspaper Italicize or underline the magazine title Capitalize the first and all the major words Comma before pages

Creating a Reference for a Magazine or Newspaper Article, continued Gerard, A. J. (2000, April). How photography will rescue e-commerce. PC Photo, Page numbers Give beginning and ending page numbers End with period

Creating a Reference for a Book McCrum, R., Cran, W., & MacNeil, R. (1992). The story of English. New York: Penguin. Authors’ names Copyright date in parenthesis, followed by period Italicize or underline the title, followed by period Give city of publication (include state if city is not well known), followed by a colon Give publisher

Creating a Reference for a Web Site Library of California, U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. (Visited site September 22, 2000). Librarians Index to the Internet. 1.Individual or organization responsible for site 2.Date site was last updated, date you visited site 3.Title of site 4.URL (Uniform Resource Locator/web address) May put in angle <> brackets 5.No period at end of URL