Writing a Scholarly Paper as APA, Part III

1. Writing a Scholarly Paper as APA, Part III

2. Developing yourreferences page(s)

3. The references page • Is at the end of your paper and begins on a new page. (Tip: Use “hard page break” at end of body.) • It is an alphabetical listing of all of the sources you referred to specifically with an in-text citation in your paper. • It does not include sources that you may have read for background information but did not actually incorporate into the paper. • Following pages do not have a title.

4. References page, contd. • The title of the page is References, not References Page, Bibliography, or Works Cited. • On the first line of the page, center the word References, using the same font as the essay. It is not underlined, italicized, or bold. It does not have quotation marks around it. • All of the reference page is double spaced like the rest of the paper (no extra spaces between entries; no single space within entries). • Each entry begins at the left margin (1”) and subsequent lines are indented an additional 5 – 7 spaces or ½ inch using tab key. (This is called a “hanging indent.”)

5. The format for a book citation shows you the “skeleton” of all APA citations…

6. Last name, first initial., & last name, first initial. (date). Title of work. Place of publication meaning City, State using 2 letter postal abbreviation: Publisher. Wade, C., & Tavris, C. (2005). Psychology (8th ed.). New York, NY: Prentice Hall. Book format (with two authors)

7. Format for a work from a collection or anthology Last name, first initials. (date). Name of chapter. In editors’ names (Eds.), Title of complete work (page #s of chapter). City, State of publication: Publisher. Newcomb, T. M. (2004). Attitude development as a function of reference groups: The Bennington study. In E. Maccoby, T. M. Newcomb, & E. L. Hartley (Eds.), Readings in social psychology (pp. 10-12). New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

8. Format for an article in a journal paginated by issue Last name, First initials. (date). Title of article. Title of Journal, vol(issue), pages. Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(3), 5-13.

9. Nonperiodical Web Document Archer, Z. (n.d.). Exploring nonverbal communication. Retrieved from http://www.zzyx.uscs.edu/~archer

10. U.S. government report without a date Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). The obesity epidemic and Michigan students. Retrieved from http://www.cdc .gov/HealthyYouthoverweight/facts.htm

11. DOI: Digital Object Identifier • The Sixth Edition defines a digital object identifier (DOI) as a string of numbers and letters that “. . . identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet” (p. 189). • In other words, it is a unique marker for an article and it is permanent (even if the specific electronic location changes).

12. Example of online journal article Tagay, S., Kribben, A., Hohenstein A., Mewes, R., & Senf, W. (2007). Posttraumatic stress disorder in hemodialysis patients. American Journal of Kidney Disease, 50, 594-601. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.06.018

13. Keeping it general:Using Web host names When citing online sources (newspapers, web pages), we now refer to the web host name (e.g., www.nytimes.com), not to a specific URL that takes us directly to the article. This avoids having outdated links.

14. Integrating Web sites into references • Use the host web name. • If necessary, break URL lines before punctuation (ex: http://www.madonna .edu/pages/tutortips.cfm). • Do not use hyphens when breaking URL lines; do not end entry with period (it may be misinterpreted as part of URL).

15. Final advice: Finding helpful information • APA guidelines: www.apastyle.org • owl.english.purdue.edu 3. Help with any part of the writing process: Visit the Writing Center.