Thursday, April 9, 2009

Eample and explination of APA Citation

APA STYLE: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES


In most social science classes, you will be asked to use the APA system for documenting sources, which is set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. (Washington: APA, 2001). APA recommends in-text citations that refer readers to a list of references.


An in-text citation gives the author of the source (often in a signal phrase), the date of publication, and at times a page number in parentheses. At the end of the paper, a list of references provides publication information about the source; the list is alphabetized by authors' last names (or by titles for works without authors.


IN-TEXT CITATION


Yanovski and Yanovski (2002) reported that “the current state of the treatment for obesity is similar to the state of the treatment of hypertension several decades ago” (p. 600).


ENTRY IN THE LIST OF REFERENCES


Yanovski, S. Z., Yanovski, J. A. (2002). Drug therapy: Obesity [Electronic version]. The New England Journal of Medicine, 346, 591-602.

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