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Arielle Nunis
Table of Contents
APA Style Sample ................................................................................................... 3
Discussion ........................................................................................................................... 3
Examples ............................................................................................................................ 4
Format ................................................................................................................................ 4
Summary ............................................................................................................................ 5
References .......................................................................................................................... 6
The American Psychological Association (APA) style is primarily used in the social
shows many similarities, but is unique in several key points. This paper discusses the
APA in detail. "Addressing plagiarism has become a major challenge in education and
educating students in referencing correctly with the APA 6th is one way of trying to
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
Examples
Terrence (2007) 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
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.
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
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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
reference list rather than a bibliography with your paper (APA, Bibliography Versus
Reference List, 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
Summary
The School of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia, uses the APA 6th
referencing style for all written documents. In addition to in text referencing and the
reference list there are a number of formatting requirements to ensure your essay
References
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx#Bibliography
Manar, H., & Shameem, F. (2014). Attitude of students towards cheating and
plagiarism: University case study. Journal of Applied Sciences, 14(8), 748-757.
10.3923/jas.2014.748.757