Americal American Psychological Association Style Sample

Assignment 1: Academic Essay

MADISON JENKINS
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Table of Contents
Discussion ..................................................................................................... 3

Examples ........................................................................................................ 4

Format ............................................................................................................ 4

Summary ........................................................................................................ 5

References ..................................................................................................... 6

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 Assignment 1: Essay

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. Look at Referencing Help sheet – there is a sentence that needs to

be added here. You need to remember to insert the two citations with RefWorks (do

not just copy and paste the sentence).

Discussion

APA uses parenthetical (or in-text) citations within sentences, but rather th

pp., is only added to the citation when using a direct quote (not a summary or

an 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

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 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.

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Examples

Note the difference between the following three examples:

Terrence (1999) has presented poignant examples from 150 interviews.

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

“exceptions to the norm” (Strong & Porter, 1998, p. 5).

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 end of the quote.

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

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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. 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 referencing is Notre Dame’s referencing guide at

http://library.nd.edu.au/referencing/apa#s-lg-box-3040351. There is also a

summary downloadable help document available at:

http://library.nd.edu.au/ld.php?content_id=8053459. In APA Style, you include

a reference list rather than a 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

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 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 complies with APA standards. Get to know the APA 6th.

References

APA. (2017) Bibliography versus reference list. Retrieved from

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-

references.aspx#Bibliography

Terrence, H. S. (2007, November 1). Student Success in Community

Colleges. The West Australian, p. 6-7

Strong, R. L., Porter, M. (1998), Grammatical Combinations. In S. Parker

& K. Gibson (Eds.), Language and Literacy (p 540-578) Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Terrence, H. S. (1999). Student success in community colleges Oregonian.

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