APA STYLE AND CITATIONS

Daytona State College Library, Fall 2014

Title Page and

Abstract

• Instructions for setting up a paper in Word are on the Nursing Research Guide

• Elements of the title page:

• Running head

• Title

• Author name and affiliation

• Abstract: one-paragraph summary of your paper

First Page of Paper

• The title appears twice

• Once as

running head

• Once as

centered title

• Page numbering: done with running head

Doing Quotations

• Remember: you have to cite whether you quote or paraphrase.

In-Text Citations

One Author

• Last name

• Comma

• Year

• Page # if quote

In-Text Citations

Multiple Authors

• First time: list them all.

• Two exceptions

• Same first

author and

year

• Six or more

authors

Guidelines for In-

Text Citations

References

Article with DOI

• Digital Object Identifier

• Newer articles have them

• Do not capitalize doi

References

Article Without DOI

• Must include a URL

• CINAHL and other EBSCO databases: Retrieved from http://ebscohost.com/

• Nursing Collection (Ovid): http://ovid.com/

• Note: EBSCO cite tool does it WRONG

References Page

• The word References is centered at the top of the page

• Alphabetical order

• Hanging indent

References

American Psychological Association. (2010).

Publication Manual of the American Psychological

Association (6th ed.) Washington, DC: American

Psychological Association.

Menchine, M., Probst, M.A., Agy, C., Bach, D., & Arora,

S. (2011). Diagnostic accuracy of venous blood gas

electrolytes for identifying diabetic ketoacidosis

in the emergency department. Academic

Emergency Medicine, 18, 1105-1108.

doi:10.1111/j.1553- 2712.2011.01158.x

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