[nabs-l] citing APA style

Tue Apr 24 03:28:12 UTC 2012

Arielle,
Well then I'm alright then; I've cited journal articles the same way I do a 
real print source. Thing is the electronic example said retrieved from some 
url; but I'm not going to worry about it; after all, I gave credit to the 
source and it technically is a print source.
I, too, like APA better because you don't have to give first and last names, 
and as you said no page numbers where you got the exact info. This is nicer 
to deal with when writing the paper.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arielle Silverman
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 10:33 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style

I always cite journal articles the same way regardless of how I found
them. The only time I use the "retrieved from" is if I am citing a
website that has no print equivalent, i.e. "Disability Compendium
2012".
While you are learning APA format, you may want to change your JAWS
voice settings so your punctuation is on most or total. Just do it
while you are looking at examples, then switch it back.
Since I am a psychology student, I switched completely from MLA to APA
style during college and overall I like APA much better. I think
that's mostly because with APA style you don't have to include an
exact page number in your in-text citation, just the author's name and
year. This works much better especially when reading sources
electronically.. The only time you need to use a page number is when
citing an exact quote.
Best,
Arielle

On 4/23/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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