APA STYLE SAMPLE

Assignment 5, Essay Styles and RefWorks

Koncar, S.
University of Notre Dame Australia
Sanja Koncar
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Table of Contents
Americal American Psychological Association Style Sample ............................... 2
Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 2
Discussion...................................................................................................................................... 2
Examples ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Format ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 3
References ..................................................................................................................................... 4

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Americal American Psychological Association Style Sample

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. 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 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 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
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 Works Cited
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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
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.

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References
APA.Bibliography versus reference list. Retrieved
from http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx#Bibliography

Bretag, T. (2013a). Challenges in addressing plagiarism in education. PLoS

Medicine, 10(12), 1-4. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001574

Bretag, T. (2013b). Challenges in addressing plagiarism in education. PLoS

Medicine, 10(12), e1001574.

Strong, R. L., Porter, M. (1998). Grammatical combinations. in S. parker & K. gibson

(eds.), language and literacy   (pp. 540-578). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press:

Terrence, H. S. (2007, November 1). Student success in community

colleges.  West Australian, pp. 6-8.