[nabs-l] citing APA style

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Ashley,
Do the following:
1. Write the authors' names, last name and then first initials for
each author, i.e. "Sherman, D. & Cohen, G." Use an ampersand rather
than the word "and".
2. Put the publication year in parentheses with a period after it.
3. Write the article title in plain format (no quotes or italics) and
only capitalize the first word of the title and the first word after
the colon if there is a colon in the middle of the title. Put a period
after the article title.
4. Write the journal title in italics and follow it with a comma.
5. Write the volume number in italics, then put either a colon or
parentheses (but no space) after the volume number and put the issue
number in regular font (no italics).
6. Put the page numbers last, in regular font and follow with a period.

Hope this helps,
Arielle

On 4/23/12, Humberto Avila <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Ashley,
>
> If you want you can download this book from www.bookshare.org. The book is
> called: "A Pocket Style Manual, 5th edition, 2009 MLA updates and 2010 APA
> updates by Diana Hacker." I used this book last quarter in my English class
> and sounds pretty good about explaining APA style and formatting. So if you
> have some time you can download, otherwise, just research on the internet to
> find how you do that. There is also a web site whose URL is
> http://www.EasyBib.com/, which will do any kind of citation you want for
> you, but you might not want to stick with it all the time as you may be
> caught cheating or "addicted" to it and making you not learn the citation
> format yourself. Just check it out, like if you want to know how you can
> cite in APA style and look at a sample.
>
> Also, talk to your instructor. If you are in an English class higher up,
> like let's say, English 201, the instructor will look at you weird when you
> ask him, assuming that you would know already how to cite, however if you
> are like in English 101, you can ask him or her with more confidence knowing
> that he or she can help you.
>
> Cheers,
> Humberto
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 12:44 PM
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> Subject: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling with the citation style as usual. Jaws doesn't tell me the
> formatting of the words and I went word by word to hear punctuation in the
> sample reference entry I looked up.  I do have to alphabetize them, right? I
> know you do in MLA.
>
> How Do I format the Journal title and title of article? Do I put italics or
> anything on it? Before there were quotes around the title of article, but
> when I looked online now, there are none.
> How do I site the volume number and issue? The sample says number and a
> parenthese number. I'm confused. I know I site the page number range after
> this. Like do I write Journal of Adolescent psychology, 3 (24) and the 3 is
> volume number and 24 is issue number?
>
> Thanks.
> Ashley
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