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CENTER FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

CENTER FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. Tom Waldrep - Director Jennie Ariail - Assistant Director. THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) STYLE FOR CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES. The following information is taken from The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker, who based her work on

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CENTER FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

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  1. CENTER FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Tom Waldrep - Director Jennie Ariail - Assistant Director THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) STYLE FOR CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES The following information is taken from The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker, who based her work on Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information by Xia Li and Nancy Crane. The forms below, not included in The Publication Manual of the APA, fourth edition (1994), have nevertheless been endorsed by APA. As with any reference citation, the key is to provide the reader with clear information that will make retrieval not only possible but easy. Therefore, in addition to standard information like author, title, and publication date, specific information about the electronic source will be required. In the examples below, pay attention to specific words like Online, to whether the access date--always listed last--is required, and to all punctuation marks (including brackets and parentheses). 1. Material from an Information Service or a Database Bersoff, D.N. (1996). The virtue of principle ethics. Counseling Psychologist,24 (1), 86-91. (ERIC Accession No. EJ 522 601) 2. CD-ROM Abstract Cummings, A. (1995). Test review made easy [CD-ROM]. Learning, 23 (5) 68. Abstract from: ERIC Document Reproduction Service: ERIC Item: EJ 509 271. 3. World Wide Web Site Boland, P. (No date). Alice Cunningham Fletcher [Online]. Available: http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~nicols/fletcher.html [1997, March 23]. 4. Online Article Memon, A., & Stevenage, S. (1996, March). Interviewing witnesses: What works and what doesn’t? Psycoloquy [Online], 7 (6), 32 paragraphs. Available: FTP: Hostname: princeton.edu Directory: pub/harnad/ Psycoloquy/1996.volume.7 File: psycoloquy.96.7.6.witness-memory.1.memon 5. Electronic Discussion List Message DBWYDRA. (1997, March 21). Citing sources. Alliance for Computers and Writing Discussion List [Online]. Available E-mail: ACWL@listserv.ttu.edu [1997, March 27]. 6. E-mail Castrodale, Beth (bethcas@aol.com). (1997, February 2). Fast food survey results. E-mail to Clare Matthews (crm4@tiac.net). 7. Computer Program TriplePlayPlus! [Computer software]. (1996). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Language Systems.

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