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REFERENCE LIST - Purdue Owl

1. The reference list appears on a separate page at the end of the paper labeled "References" without bold, italics or quotes. All text is double-spaced. 2. References are listed alphabetically by the author's last name and use a hanging indent for additional lines. Author names are inverted with initials for first and middle names. 3. For works with up to seven authors, list all authors. For more than seven authors, list the first six authors followed by ellipses and then the last author. 4. Journal titles are written in full, maintaining the capitalization and punctuation used in the original. Major words in journal titles are capitalized. Book and journal titles are

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REFERENCE LIST - Purdue Owl

1. The reference list appears on a separate page at the end of the paper labeled "References" without bold, italics or quotes. All text is double-spaced. 2. References are listed alphabetically by the author's last name and use a hanging indent for additional lines. Author names are inverted with initials for first and middle names. 3. For works with up to seven authors, list all authors. For more than seven authors, list the first six authors followed by ellipses and then the last author. 4. Journal titles are written in full, maintaining the capitalization and punctuation used in the original. Major words in journal titles are capitalized. Book and journal titles are

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Reference List: Basic Rules

Summary
APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite
sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6 th edition,
second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA
research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For
more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association, (6th ed., 2nd printing).

Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the
information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the
body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference
list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.

Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay;
label this page "References" centered at the top of the page (do NOT bold, underline, or
use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of
your essay.

Basic Rules
1. All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented
one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.

2. Authors' names are inverted (last name first); give the last name and initials for all
authors of a particular work for up to and including seven authors. If the work has more
than seven authors, list the first six authors and then use ellipses after the sixth author's
name. After the ellipses, list the last author's name of the work.

3. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of
each work.

4. For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the
entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.

5. Present the journal title in full.

6. Maintain the punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
For example:  ReCALL not RECALL or Knowledge Management Research &
Practice not Knowledge Management Research and Practice.

7. Capitalize all major words in journal titles.


8. When referring to books, chapters, articles, or webpages, capitalize only the first
letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the
title, and proper nouns.

9. Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.

10. Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as
journal articles or essays in edited collections.

 Please note: While the APA manual provides many examples of how to cite
common types of sources, it does not provide rules on how to cite all types of
sources. Therefore, if you have a source that APA does not include, APA
suggests that you find the example that is most similar to your source and use
that format. For more information, see page 193 of the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association, 6th ed., 2ndprinting.

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