[nabs-l] citing APA style

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi, thanks Katie and Gret; great descriptions.
I have trouble learning this because of the punctuation and formatting and 
the fact that citation style changes. As you get used to some rules, they 
change it again! Before title of articles were in quotes.  So the 
parentheses is for
issue number in this latest  APA style.

One more thing, if you get the article from a database that is also a print 
source, what do you say? Do you put retrieved from psychinfo or something. I 
do not have urls since the articles are pdfs so they look like the original 
journal article.
I'm citing the articles like print sources since that is what the 
description says; I've also looked at the Purdue OWL site, but you add 
something for electronic sources.

Ashley


-----Original Message----- 
From: Katie Wang
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 6:37 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style

Hi Ashley,

I understand that formatting citations can be a little annoying at
first, but after you learn the conventions you should be able to
format all your APA references independently. I'm not sure if you know
this already, but you can get JAWS to read you the formatting of any
selected section of the text by pressing Insert plus f.

To answer your specific questions, the journal title and volume number
need to be italicized, and issue number should come in parentheses
after the volume number. Also note that you should apply a hanging
indent to your reference list-- In other words, the second and
subsequent lines of each reference should be indented from the left
margin by the width of a tab. Hope this helps and feel free to let me
know if you have any other questions about APA style-- I'm a
Psychology graduate student and have been doing this for a while.
Katie



On 4/23/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> gee, Josh, lots of people hate formatting. Its just a little harder for us
> since we cannot see it so someone has to tell us.
> It used to be that you put the article in quotes and underlined book or
> chapter titles.From what I can see so far, this is no longer the case.
> You start it the same though. Just do not put quotes or underlines; its
> still author's name, date in parenthesis, title of article or book, title 
> of
>
> journal. then not sure.
>
> I'll ask someone sighted yeah, but I need to learn. I can certainly bold 
> or
>
> italic something if I know what need  to be bolded/italiacized.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lester
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:52 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> I've always hated APA format!
> It's very confusing!
> My Freshmen English instructor made us use it, so I had a sighted
> work-study help me format it.
> I'd recommend this, as well.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 4/23/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 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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