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Citing Sources: Documenting Your Research

APA Citation Style

References:
  • A reference list should appear at the end of your paper.
  • Consult the following for formatting requirements. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) http://www.apastyle.org
  • Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list
  • Each source in the reference list must appear somewhere in the body of the paper.
  • If there is no author to cite, such as when you are citing a web page that lists no author, use an abbreviated version of the title of the page in quotation marks to substitute for the name of the author.
  • If you are citing a work that has no author and no date, use the first few words from the title, then the abbreviation n.d. (for "no date").
  • If the work has two authors, cite both names every time the reference appears in the text.
In-Text Citations:
  • Give both the author and the date of the publication in parentheses after you refer to the information from that source (paraphrase, summarize). (Leiker, 2002)
  • If you are directly quoting from a source, include the author, year of publication, and the page number for the reference in parentheses after you use the material. (Leiker, 2002, p 102)