APA StyleBasic APA Citation Format

Plagiarism (from Student Handbook)1. Submitting a term paper, examination or other work written by someone else. This is a flagrant instance of plagiarism.

2. Failure to give credit in a footnote for ideas, statements of facts or conclusions derived by another.

3. Failure to use quotation marks when quoting directly from another person, whether it is a paragraph, a sentence or even a part thereof.

4. Close and extended paraphrasing of another.

General Elements

Reference

Author. (Date). Title of work. Publisher/Retrieval data.

In Text

(Author’s Last Names, Publication Year)

Book Reference Page

Schroeder, A. (2008). The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life. New York, NY: Bantam Books.

In Text Citation

(Schroeder, 2008) OR According to Schroeder (2008)….

Journal from a databaseReference Page

Goolsbee, A. & Syverson, C. (2008, November). How do incumbents respond to the threat of entry? Evidence from the major airlines. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123, 1611-1633. Retrieved from: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/

In Text Citation

(Goolsbee & Syverson, 2008) OR According to Goolsbee and Syverson (2008)….

Website Reference Page

Humana. (2013). Humana on health care reform. Retrieved from https://www.humana.com/about/public-policy/humana-on-the-issues/healthcare-reform

In Text Citation

(Humana, 2013) OR Humana’s (2008) website….

Variations

•No author = start citation with title

•No date = (n.d.)

•Multiple authors

•Quotations and in text citations (author, date, p., pp. or para. #)

•DOI number