1 Unit 5 Seminar: APA Basic and Reference Pages

2 Understand the basics A source is an article, book, or other resource you have used to support you own ideas. Any idea you get from a source, any idea that is not original to you or from your common knowledge about a topic, belongs to someone else. That “someone else” must receive credit for his or her ideas. These ideas often are called “intellectual property,” and are considered similar to tangible property. Paraphrasing and quoting provide two ways of acknowledging source authors. Failing to give credit to sources is plagiarism. For the unit 3 project, don’t use exact words from source at all, just the source’s ideas in your own words.

What not to use 3 Sources that should be avoided and why:  Dictionaries: offer basic information that the reader could find  Encyclopedias: offer background that is often easily found  Wiki sites: are member run and written and have no level of editorial review  Anyone can post anything at any time.  Example: Wikipedia  General web sites: offer information, but it may not be credible, researched, documented, original, or accurate  Popular magazines: offer articles with less research than news sources (ex. Ladies Home Journal, GQ)

Web Site Guide 4 Paying attention to the domain suffix can help you determine the credibility of a source. Basic suffixes and what they mean:  Government sites:.gov,.mil,.us,  Educational sites:.edu  Non-profit organizations:.org  Commercial web sites:.com,.tv  Networks:.net

Creating APA Citations 5 Citations are ways to document something. They show the reader where the information came from and are used in the text and on the reference page. In-text citations are short “keys” to the full citations on the reference page. In-text citations use only author’s last name and date of publication (and page number for quoted material). For example, (Smith, 1999). View more at Reference page citations include all of the publication information so that readers can access the sources. These vary depending on the source.

Reference Page Citations 6 These contain all of the publication information that APA deems necessary. They are based on the type of document being cited. Let’s look at this site: ngCenter/WritingReferenceLibrary/ResearchCitationAndPlagiarism/C ommonCitationsInAPAformat.aspx

Reference template For a journal article: Last name, initials. (year). Title. Journal name, volume (issue), page. (doi if available) For a journal article retrieved from a web site: Last name, initials. (year). Title. Journal name, volume (issue), page. Retrieved from web site (refer to slide 21) For any article retrieved from a web site: Last name, initials. (year). Title of article. Title of web site. Retrieved from web site

Locating DOI Let’s try to find DOI for an article. Go to Library. Type “alcoholism” into search engine. Click on first article. Scroll down. You should see DOI. Now let’s try to locate this document by using Google. Go to Google.com. Type in DOI.

The reference page Book: Last name, initials. (year). Title. City of publication: Publication company. Book with no author Title. (year). City of publication: Publication company.

The reference page REFERENCES Allerton, J. P. (2004). The Greatest Show on Earth. Boston: Boswell Publishers. The Greatest Show on Earth. (2004). Boston: Boswell Publishers. Smith, K. (2003, June 17). Bobo the clown. Newspress, 24 (7). doi Bobo the clown. (2003, June 17). Newspress, 24 (7). doi Thomas, H. (n.d.) Elizabethan Women. Queen Elizabeth ( ). Retrieved from

Creating Reference Citations /research/essays/Sample_APA_References_%20Page.pdf /research/essays/Sample_APA_References_%20Page.pdf Choose the citation that best fits your source type Use the sample citation to format one with the source’s information Place finished citations on the References page in alphabetical order Double space each line, including within the citation Indent the second and subsequent lines of each citation on the page