1. A.P.A. Formatting Review

2. Plagiarism
Using someone else’s WORDS or IDEAS and passing them off as your own.

3. Cite Using APA format American Psychological Association
A standardized way for your academic research material to be presented
APA requires you to cite your sources

4. When to cite:
Cite whenever you
Direct Quote
Summarize
Paraphrase

5. To cite properly, you need:
Embedded Citations
Reference List / Bibliography

6. Embedded Citations In brackets, the following information is required:
Author last name
Year of publication
Page number
Example: (Guch, 2006, p.105)

7. Examples When information is from a book:
Stress has many negative effects on our bodies. Feeling stressed often can result in physical illness and pain (Jones, 2009, p. 199).
Heroin is derived from the seed capsules of poppies (Ferreiro, 2003, p. 10). In fact, several different drugs are made from the Asian poppy including opium, morphine and codeine (Sanna, 2013, p. 15).

8. Examples cont. When information is from a website:
A vaccine used to treat drug-addicted rats is now ready for human trial (Ferro, 2013).
When information is from a website with no author :
Sap from the poppy is collected and allowed to dry “into a dark brown gum—crude opium” (“Opium,” 2013).

9. Bibliography/ Reference List
Some General Rules
Must be a separate sheet of paper at the end of your document.
The title is centred at the top of the page and is not underlined.
Entries are arranged alphabetically by author/editor, or where there is no author/editor, by title.
Hanging indentation is used for longer citations.

10. Format for a Book
Author/Editor last name, Author/Editor first initial. (Year of Publication). Title. (Edition if applicable). Location: Publisher. Juby, S. (2010). Nice recovery. Toronto, ON: Penguin Group.

11. More Than Seven Authors
Embedded: (Miller et al., 2009, p. 330) Reference List: List by name and initials; commas separate author names. After the sixth author’s name, use an ellipsis in place of the author names. Then provide the final author name. Example: Miller, F.H., Choi, M.J., Angeli, L.L., Harland, A.A., Stamos, J.A., Thomas, S.T., ... Rubin, L.H. (2009). Web site usability for the blind and low-vision user. Technical Communication, 57,

12. Sample Bibliography
Reference List
Brady, J.T. & Brady, P. L. (2003, November). Consumers and genetically modified foods. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 95(4), Retrieved from
http: proquestjournaloffamilyandconsumersciences
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. (2004, April 28). What are genetically modified foods? Retrieved from  
Genetic Engineering. (2002). In The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia (Vol. 5, p.178). Chicago, IL: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Health Canada. (2002, February). The safety of genetically modified food crops. Retrieved from sc.gc.ca/english/protection/html.

13. Use Source It to assist you in citing your sources!