[nabs-l] citing APA style

Tue Apr 24 06:16:46 UTC 2012

Oh, I just use control t a lot, because I have found that often times,
ms word automatically formats documents to tab further and further in
as you indent consecutive lines.

Cindy

On 4/23/12, Tina Thomas <tinadt at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Does your professor afford everyone in the class this practice? Or is it
> only afforded to you?
> Tina 	
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Joshua Lester
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:32 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> I like the instructor, at my college, now.
> He doesn't care, if a paper is done, in APA, or MLA, just as long as it gets
> done.
> He's very laid back, and he's very accomidating!
> Blessings, Joshua
> 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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