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APA 6th edition
REFERENCING GUIDE
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January 2014

Foreword
This guide is designed to give a clear understanding of the accepted format for the acknowledgement of sources of information in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.).
Please read through the guide carefully and follow the recommendations. Any comments or queries can be discussed with your lecturer or library staff. For further reading, copies of both the APA Publication Manual and the Concise Rules of APA Style are available from the
Polytechnic West libraries.
Further information is also available from the APA style website at http://apastyle.org
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ............................................................................................................ 26
Universal Resource Locator (URL) ..................................................................................................... 27
Order of references in the reference list (alphabetising) ................................................................. 27
Reference List ............................................................................................................................................ 28

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What is a referencing system?
A referencing system is a set of rules and principles that is used to attribute the contributions of other authors within your own written work. This is achieved by both acknowledging, and identifying the source of, the other authors' work.
There are two parts to academic referencing: the acknowledgement (of the other authors’ words and ideas) in the body of your text (the in-text citation); and the identification of their work in full at the end of your document (the end-text citation in the reference list).
Copying the words and ideas of others without acknowledging correct ownership is called plagiarism. Plagiarism may result in failure of a unit or entire course, fines, prevention from entry into professional associations and other disciplinary

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