[nabs-l] citing APA style

Tue Apr 24 05:00:25 UTC 2012

Cindy, thanks for the shortcut key. You can either do that or press tab on 
each line; control t is shorter though.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cindy Bennett
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:34 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style

These descriptions seem pretty comprehensive, but the keystroke for a
hanging indent is control t.

Cindy

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