APA Basics Styling (Autosaved)

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Lecture 1
Plagiarism
From the CHC Writing Center

What is plagiarism
Using someone's ideas or words without citing the author
appropriately (giving credit to the author).
Copying another persons ideas as if its your own idea

How to Avoid Plagiarism
Print out the materials, read them understand the main idea
of the writer and put those ideas in your own words.
Avoid copy and paste
Avoid reading the materials online
Ensure you always acknowledge the sources you cited in
your work.
Cite
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General Format
Your essay should
4. References
include four major
sections:
3. Main Body
2. Abstract
1. Title page
From the CHC Writing
Center
Formatting the Title Page

Header= the
Running
head* and
page number
Title of the paper

Your name and
your institution
(school)
*The running head
should not exceed
one line. If it does,
use a shortened
version of your title
as the header
The Abstract
0 The second page of your paper
0 Summarizes your subject, research method, findings,
and conclusions
In-Text Citations
0 Used to cite information that you have taken from
another source and used in your paper in the form of:
0 Direct Quotes
0 Paraphrasing
0 Summary
0 Whenever you use a source, provide in parenthesis:
0 the author’s name and the date of publication
0 for quotations and close paraphrases, provide the

author’s name, date of publication, and a page number
In-text Citations:
Formatting Quotations
Caruth (1996) states that a traumatic response

Intext Citation 1
frequently entails a “delayed, uncontrolled
repetitive appearance of hallucinations and
other intrusive phenomena”.
Intext Citation 2
In-text Citations:
Formatting a Summary or Paraphrase
Smith (2002) explained that sibutramine

Intext Citation 1
suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake
if the neurotransmitters serotonin and
norepinephrine in the brain.
Sibutramine suppresses appetite by blocking

the reuptake of the neurotransmitters
Intext Citation 2 serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain
(Smith, 2002).
In-text Citations:
A Work with Two Authors
According to feminist researchers Bergin
and Tate (1997), “It is no longer true to
claim that women's responses to the war
have been ignored”.
When citing a work with two authors, use

“and” in between authors’ name in the
signal phrase, but use“&” between their
names in parenthesis.
Some feminists researchers question that

“women's responses to the war have been
ignored” (Bergin & Tate, 1997).
In-text Citations:
A Work with Five or More authors
0In subsequent citations, only use the first author's last

name followed by "et al."
(Harklau et al., 1993)

In-text Citations:
A Work with Six and More Authors
OR…
In-text Citations:
A Work of Unknown Author
0 When citing a work of unknown author, use the
source’s full title in the signal phrase and cite the first
word of the title followed by the year of publication in
parenthesis. Put titles of articles and chapters in
quotation marks; italicize titles of books and reports.
According to “Indiana Joins Federal

Accountability System” (2008), …
(“Indiana,” 2008)
In-text Citations:
Organization
0 When citing an organization, mention the
organization the first time when you cite the source in
the signal phrase or the parenthetical citation.
The data collected by the Food and Drug Administration
(2008) confirmed that…
0 If the organization has a well-known abbreviation,

include the abbreviation in parenthesis the first time
the source is cited and use only the abbreviation in
later citations.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2008) confirmed
… FDA’s experts tested…
References Page
Center the title
(References) at the Double-space
top of the page. Do reference
not bold it. entries
Flush left the first

line of the entry
and indent
subsequent lines
Order entries
alphabetically
by the author’s
surnames
References:
Basics
0 Invert authors’ names
0 last name first followed by initials: Smith, J.Q.
0 Alphabetize reference list entries by the last name of

the first author of each work
0 Capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a

title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash
in the title, and proper nouns:
Toward effective poster presentations: An annotated bibliography
References:
Basic Format for Books
0 Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work:

Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
Ex.:
Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing

manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
References:
Article form an Online Periodical
0Online scholarly journal articles require the URL of the

journal home page.
0 Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of
article. Title of Journal, volume number. Retrieved from
http://www.journalhomepage.com/full/url/
Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to the nature

of human rights. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 8. Retrieved
from http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html
References:
Web Document, Web Page, or Report
0 List as much of the following information as possible

0 Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of
document. Retrieved from http://Web address
Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M.,
Soderland, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May 5). General format.
Retrieved from
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

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From the CHC Writing Center

Copying another persons ideas as if its your own idea

From the CHC Writing Center

Formatting the Title Page

Title of the paper

0 for quotations and close paraphrases, provide the

Caruth (1996) states that a traumatic response

Smith (2002) explained that sibutramine

Sibutramine suppresses appetite by blocking

When citing a work with two authors, use

Some feminists researchers question that

0In subsequent citations, only use the first author's last

(Harklau et al., 1993)

According to “Indiana Joins Federal

0 If the organization has a well-known abbreviation,

Flush left the first

0 Alphabetize reference list entries by the last name of

0 Capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a

0 Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work:

Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing

0Online scholarly journal articles require the URL of the

Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to the nature

0 List as much of the following information as possible

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