Assignment 5 Essay
Teisha Pink
24/5/18
Contents
Americal American Psychological Association Style Sample .......................................................................... 1
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 1
Discussion ...................................................................................................................................................... 1
Examples ........................................................................................................................................................ 1
Format ............................................................................................................................................................ 2
Summary ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
References ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
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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.
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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 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
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References (Manually inserted into RefWorks. At the end, you need to include a screenshot of your
RefWorks references in Weebly.)
APA. (2017) Bibliography versus reference list. Retrieved from http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-
on-references.aspx#Bibliography
Strong, R. L., Porter, M. (1998), Grammatical Combinations. In S. Parker & K. Gibson (Eds.), Language
and Literacy (p 540-578) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Terrence, H. S. (2007, November 1). Student Success in Community Colleges. The West Australian, p. 6-7
