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APA STYLE DOCUMENTATION FG CHAPTER 50 ENG 102 – thanks to Amy Jones!

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APA STYLE DOCUMENTATIONFG CHAPTER 50

ENG 102 – thanks to Amy Jones!

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Formatting the Whole Paper

Cover Page (information centered on page) Include

TitleYour Name

Class name and sectionProfessor’s NameDate submitted

Top right- hand corner of each page (including cover page) include a shortened title of your paper and the page number

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In-Text Citations

Use the author’s last name, add initials before last name if you have two authors with the same last name

Put the year the document was published in (parenthesis) after authors name

At the end of the sentence add the page number (p.18)If the work doesn’t have page numbers, cite

the paragraph number Ex. (para. 2)

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In-Text Citations

In a signal phrase: after the author’s name, include the year published in parenthesis

Ex. McCullough (2001) described John Adams as having “the hands of a man accustomed to pruning his own trees, cutting his own hay, and splitting his own firewood” (p. 18).

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If you don’t use a signal phrase If you choose not use the authors name

in the sentence put the parenthetical citation after the quote or near the relevant information (kind of ambiguous) Ex. One biographer (McCullough, 2001, p.

18) described John Adams as someone who was not a stranger to manual labor.

Ex. Adams is said to have had “the hands of a man accustomed to pruning his own trees, cutting his own hay, and splitting his own firewood” (McCullough, 2001, p.18).

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Reference List (AKA Works Cited) This includes every source cited in your text List is organized alphabetical by author’s

last name If the work doesn’t have an author, are

included alphabetically by the title name Citations include basically the same

information as an MLA Works cited, but the information is arranged in a different order

Unlike MLA, only the first word or proper nouns in the title are capitalized

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One or Two Authors

One Author Author’s last name, Initials. (Year of

Publication). Title. Publication City: Publisher. Young, K. S. (1998). Caught in the net: How to

recognize the signs of internet addiction– and a winning strategy for recovery. New York: Wiley.

Two or More Authors First Author’s last name, Initials, 2nd author’s

last name, initials, etc. (Year of Publication). Title. Publication City: Publisher.

Leavitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2006). Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. New York: William Morrow.

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A Book with an Editor

Author’s last name, Initials. (Year of edited edition). Title. (Editor’s initials Last Name, Ed.). Publication City: Publisher (Original Work[s] published year[s].)

Ex. Dick, P. F. (2008). Five novels of the 1960’s and 70’s. (J. Lethem, Ed.). New York: Library of America. (Original works published 1964-1977)

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Periodicals

Print Periodicals Author’s last name, Initials. (Year). Title of

Article. Title of Journal, volume (issue if any), pages. Ex. Weaver, C., McNally, C., & Moerman, S.

(2001). To grammar or not to grammar: That is not the question! Voices from the Middle, 8(3), 17-33.

There are slightly different styles for newspapers and magazines (FG pages 492-498).

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Periodical Articles Found Online Author’s Last Name, Initials. (Year). Title of

article. Title of Journal, Volume (issue), pages. Retrieved from Name of database. Ex. White, D. E. (1999). The “Joineriana”: Anna

Barbauld, the Aikin family circle, and the dissenting public sphere. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 32(4), 511-533. Retreived from Project Muse Database.

Check FG pages 498-506 for more nuanced citations.