Apa citation guide (7th edition) reference list & sample paper
- 1. 1 Quick Rules for an APA Reference List APA Citation Guide (7th edition) : Reference List & Sample Paper Your research paper ends with a list of all the sources cited in the text of the paper. Here are nine quick rules for this Reference list. Start a new page for your Reference list. Centre the title, References, at the top of the page. Double-space the list. Start the first line of each reference at the left margin; indent each subsequent line five spaces (a hanging indent). Put your list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize the list by the first word in the reference. In most cases, the first word will be the author’s last name. Where the author is unknown, alphabetize by the first word in the title, ignoring the words a, an, the. For each author, give the last name followed by a comma and the first (and middle, if listed) initials followed by periods. Italicize the titles of these works: books, audiovisual material, internet documents and newspapers, and the title and volume number of journals and magazines. Do not italicize titles of most parts of works, such as: articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals / essays, poems, short stories or chapter titles from a book / chapters or sections of an Internet document. In titles of non-periodicals (books, videotapes, websites, reports, poems, essays, chapters, etc), capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, and all proper nouns (names of people, places, organizations, nationalities). If a web source (not from the library) is not a stable archived version, or you are unsure whether it is stable, include a statement of the accessed date before the link.
- 2. 2 Full Title of Research Paper Student’s Name CRS 101 Professor’s Name September 18, 2012
- 3. 3 Full Title of Research Paper Begin the first paragraph of your research paper with a half-inch indent. Avoid the temptation of using the heading “Introduction” at the start of your paper. Your first sentence is what should immediately follow the title. As your paper develops, you will want to incorporate your research. Sometimes you will use direct quotes that “duplicate the original source word for word” (Jones & Brook, 2011, p. 3). Other times, you will put the ideas from your research into your own words, and that paraphrased material must also be cited in-text (Xiang et al., 2012). Even if your information came from a website without an author, you must cite that source (The Corporation, 2012). At the end of your paper, you will list all of your sources in a References list. The References page begins on a new page and must be included in every research paper.
- 4. 4 References The Corporation. (2012). Company brochure: Available online. Retrieved August 27, 2012 from https://www.corporationxyz.brochure/pdf Jones, A. B., & Brook, C. D. (2011). Sample print book title. Publisher. Walker, A. (2019, November 14). Germany avoids recession but growth remains weak. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50419127 Xiang, E., Cooper, F., Wilson, G. H., & Liang, I. (2012). Sample title: Of an invented journal article. Citations, 14(7), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1056/j.cit.2012.08.034