Introduction to APA (6th ed.)

43 Pages·2016·1.38 MB·English

by  Dawn Harper

Introduction to
APA (6th ed.)
Reference and Instructional Library Services
Alvin Sherman Library
January 2016
Publication Manual of the APA
• Intended for authors submitting manuscripts for scholarly publication
• Not just citation…includes formatting, language, and style requirements
http://lib.nova.edu/apa
http://blog.apastyle.org
Fully searchable!
APA Citation – Why We Cite
• To allow your reader to find your sources
• To give credit to others ideas and words
(this includes charts, tables, and other
graphics) that have influenced your work
• Not properly citing the use of other
people’s words, ideas, theories, and/or
information is considered plagiarism.
See APA (6th ed.), p. 169
Types of Plagiarism
• Paraphrasing is not cited in the proper way; ideas
are presented without reference to the original
Minor source
• Unacknowledged copying of ideas and material
Moderate
• Submitting someone else’s work as your own
Serious
APA Citation – When Do You Cite?
• Direct quotation from a source
• Paraphrased (summarized) ideas
from a source
• Any information obtained that is
not common knowledge
• In the text of your paper when you
refer to the material
• References list
See APA (6th ed.), p. 169
Types of In-Text Citations
DIRECT QUOTATIONS
Using the exact same words, in the exact same order, as
your source material.
PARAPHRASED INFORMATION
Summarizing any amount of information, from a sentence to
an entire book, from your source material.
See APA (6th ed.), p. 170
APA In-Text Citation:
Direct Quotations
DIRECT – Within the text of your paper
According to Weber (2014), how students spend discretionary income is of particular
interest to “advertisers and corporations since spending patterns in youth often predict
adult behavior” (p. 65), and…
The research found that the training built “sequentially and developmentally” (Jones &
Ifill, 2010, Conclusions section, para. 6).
Yi (2004) stated that the “IL Model needed to be implemented” (p. 34).
APA In-Text Citation:
Direct Quotations – Block Quotes
BLOCK – Used if the direct quotation is over 40 words
Gomes (2015) suggests that the landscape of consumer technology is shifting towards
health data:
Your wearables and assorted wireless-enabled gadgets — your bathroom scale,
perhaps a blood-glucose monitor — would gather torrents of physiological
data. Someday, the data might even come from biosensors worn on the body,
like tattoos, or ultimately, from implanted devices. (p. 52)