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APA Formatting and Documentation Guidelines:
NEIT’s Standard for Writing a College Paper
Prepared by: APA Ad Hoc Committee
Revised February 4, 2013/ April
5, 2013
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Quick
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This booklet was prepared as a quick reference to the American Psychological Association (APA) style of documentation adopted by New England Institute of Technology as a standard for documentation.
Examples are formatted according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2010. Please consult the complete manual located in Reference in the Library (under the call number Ref. BF76.7 .P83 2010) or at the APA's website [http://www.apastyle.org/learn/] for additional tutorials, details and examples.
Citation Generators
Quick
Guide to APA Reference Page Entries
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Quick Guide shown
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pdf format of Complete APA Guidelines for NEIT
– All citations can be reduced to just a few elements.
Who? When? What? and Where?
– Some citations need a bit more information so that they can be found more easily.
In that case add information from the "What? (Part 2)" column.
– If you are not sure about including information,
you are better off including more information than less.
When
citing a source, check each column to find the example that matches your
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Lastname, I. I. |
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Title of the work. |
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Location: Publisher. |
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Lastname, I. I. (Ed.). |
(2009, May). |
Title of the work: subtitle of the work. |
For parts of a book or multivolume work: |
doi:xxxxxxx |
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Lastname1, I. I., Lastname2, I. I., & Lastname3, I. I. |
(2009, May 27). |
Title of the chapter. In Title of the book. |
For reports and other kinds of publications: |
Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxxx.xxx |
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Lastname1, I. I., & Lastname2, I. I. (Eds.). |
(n.d.). |
Title of the chapter. In I. I. Lastname (Ed.), Title of the book. |
To distinguish type of material: |
Retrieved on August 27, 2009, from http://www.xxxxxxxx.xxx (*see note below) |
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Corporate Author Name. |
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Title of article. Title of Periodical, (xx)x, pp-pp. |
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Exception: When you do not have a named author, the basic part of the title (in red boldface type in the chart above) of the work is moved before the date. Everything else is the same. For example: Title of article. (2009, May 27). Title of Periodical, (xx)x, pp-pp. Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxxx.xxx
Example
(Chapter of a book with two authors in an edited book, found in an online database):
Nie, N. H. & Erbring, L. (2005). Internet use decreases social interaction.
In J. D. Torr (Ed.),
Opposing Viewpoints: The Internet. Retrieved September 4, 2009, from
http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID
=T010&prodId=OVRC&docId=EJ3010236237&source=gale&srcprod=OVRC&userGroupName=warw18036&version=1.0
Citation
Generators
Did you know...?
– Most databases provide a way to generate citations in the format that you need.
EBSCOhost Databases: When looking at the details for an article, click on the "Cite" icon
and a box will appear with the information in multiple citation formats. Copy and paste the text set up in APA format into a word processing program.
Opposing Viewpoints: When looking at the details for an article, click on the "Source Citation" link above the article. You can copy the source information, then you must reformat it according to the guidelines on this web page to get the information into APA format.
CQ Researcher: When looking at the details for an article, click on the "Cite Now!" link above the article or in text at the bottom of the article identified as "Document Citation. Copy and paste the text into a word processing program (it will already be generated in APA format).
In addition to the databases that will generate links for you, there are also some free online utilities that will help you set up citations for resources not found in databases, such as books, videos, interviews, or websites. In each of these citation generators, you type in the information following prompts and the citation will be generated for you.
BibMe
URL: http://www.bibme.org/
Click on the type of material you are using for your source (book, magazine, newspaper, website, journal, film, other). Begin typing the ISBN, author, or title and possible selections are listed. Click on Find (Book, Article, etc.) and possible sources that fit the criteria will be listed below the search box. Click on Select to the right of the entry and the elements of the bibliography will appear in titled, editable boxes, then click on Add to My Bibliography. The bibliography can then be saved to an account or downloaded.
URL: http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
Click on APA in the left column, select the type of citation (book, periodical, web page, etc.), then fill in the form.
URL: http://citationmachine.net/
Click on APA in the left column, select the type of citation (book, periodical, web page, etc.), then follow the prompts.
URL: http://www.ottobib.com/
Though this citation generator only works with books, it is very quick. Just click on the radio button for APA format, type in the ISBNs of the books you are using, separating each of the numbers by commas, click on "Get Citations," then cut and paste the text for the bibliography.
Zotero is an add-on on the Mozilla Firefox browser. Collect and organize data in many ways, and create citations. Free download necessary using Firefox. >> http://www.zotero.org/
Links to Sites on Writing, Grammar, and APA Format
APA
Tips on using APA format for print and electronic sources. [03/13]
URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Excellent guide and examples of APA. Duke University Libraries. [03/13]DOIs
A DOI is a Document Object Identifier. To find the document to which a DOI refers, go to the DOI Name Resolution website at http://dx.doi.org/ and type the DOI in the Search box and click on GO. This will bring you to information about the document. To construct a permalink, incorporate the DOI into the URL, for example, this link http://dx.doi.org/10.1000/182 brings you to the page for The DOI® Handbook. For more information on DOIs, go to http://www.doi.org/
Writing and Grammar
Center for Writing Studies
URL: http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, includes links to other writing sites. [03/13]
Critically Analyzing Information Sources
URL: http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill26.htm
Assessing the value and point of view of information sources. [03/13]
Deadwood Phrases
URL: http://www.klariti.com/technical-writing/Deadwood%20Phrases.shtml
Phrases to avoid when writing, with alternative phrases. [03/13]
Dr. Grammar
URL: http://www.drgrammar.org/
Links to a variety of sources on grammar and writing. University of Northern Iowa. [03/13]
Garbl's Writing Center
URL: http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/
Editorial style manual, annotated directory of writing Web sites, concise writing guide. [03/13]
Grammar Slammer
URL: http://englishplus.com/grammar/
Guide to Writing Business Letters
URL: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=71
Content, format and solid tips on writing Business Letters. From the Writing Center at Colorado State University. [03/13]
OWL: The Purdue Online Writing Lab [03/13]
URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Quotations
URL: http://quotations.about.com/
About.com [03/13]
Writer's Handbook
URL: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/index.html
University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center. [03/13]
Books and Reference Materials -- print
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Sources Used to Prepare this Guide
American Psychological Association (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Ref. BF76.7 .P83 2010]
Lester, J. D. (1999). Writing research papers: a complete guide. 9th ed. New York: Longman.
Lunsford, A. A. & Ruszkiewicz, J. J. (1999). Everything's an argument. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
