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Assignment 6: Essay Sample (APA
Referencing) Edited by
Tom Prestianni
Melissa Oliver
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Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................1
Discussion................................................................................................................1
Examples..................................................................................................................2
Format......................................................................................................................2
Summary..................................................................................................................3
References................................................................................................................4
Introduction
The American Psychological Association (APA) style is primarily used in the
social science disciplines. It is formatted like Modern Language Association (MLA),
and shows many similarities, but is unique in several key points. This paper
discusses the APA in detail.
Discussion
APA uses parenthetical (or intext) citations within sentences, but
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 summary or paraphrase).
If the author's name is mentioned in the sentence, then place the date of publication
in parentheses directly after the name. If the name is not mentioned include the
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author's name and date in parentheses at the end of the source material. And, if you
use a direct quote, place the page number after the publication date within the
parentheses.
Examples
However, it has been pointed out that the research was conducted in a selective,
highly biased, way (Strong & Porter, 1998). All of the interviewees have been called
Note the first example paraphrases an author that is named in the 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 example, the authors' names would be followed by
the year of publication and only the page numbers would be in the parentheses at the
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 immediately follows the author's
name in parentheses, and titles of articles are not surrounded with quotation marks.
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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 (approximately 5 spaces or one tab). A good resource to help you with
bibliography with your paper (APA, 2017). A reference list consists of all sources
cited in the text of a paper whereas a bibliography may include resources that were
consulted but not cited in the text as well as an annotated description of each one.
Summary
The School of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia, uses the APA
6th referencing style for all written documents. In addition to in text referencing and
the reference list there are a number of formatting requirements to ensure your essay
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References
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx#Bibliography
Strong, R. L., Porter, M. (1998), Grammatical Combinations. In S. Parker &
K. Gibson (Eds.), Language and Literacy (p 540578) Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Terrence, H. S. (2007, November 1). Student Success in Community
Colleges. The West Australian, p. 67
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