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
All work should be word processed and include appropriate references both in main essay through acknowledgement using the author surname and date of publication and detailed as a full reference in an end list attached to the back of your work. Please visit the power point on the moodle for further information as to the
“The Manual is used by more than 1,000 journals across a very wide range of disciplines and is part of the lives of enormous numbers of students in many countries around the world. Its advice is highly influential.” (Cumming, fiddler, Kalinowski and Lai) APA has an enormous effect on research and writing and maintains as a growing standard as more people like myself learn to use it. The impact APA has around the world on research and writing is astounding. The uniform style is clear and to the point so much so that people at all levels are able to learn it..
Typing Template for APA Papers: A Sample of Proper Formatting for the APA 6th Edition Student A. Sample
5. Referencing - Excellent utilization of the appropriate referencing format (double spaced and in APA or other approved DeVry-Keller format/style)
The APA style is a 300 and 400 writing level that follows all the guidance provided by the American Psychology Association 6th edition for writing assignments. The APA style includes 1st page for Title, abstract if is required, body, and references. GCU provides to types of APA templates with and without abstract.
In APA writing you want to make sure you follow all of the steps that are necessary, and this paragraph will give you general information about how to use and type your paper in APA format. According to Purdue Owl, the first thing you should do is make sure your lines are double-spaced with 1" margins on all sides, and APA recommends using 12 pt. Times New Roman font. That information is similar to MLA in which you may be used to. Next you want to make sure that you include a page header at the top of every page. On the first page (title page) the header should say “Running head: TITLE” followed by a short title in all capitalization, and every page after should just have the short title (2015). These are the basic outlines for APA that will help you to make sure that the foundation of your paper is correctly laid out.
Use the first sentence or sentences of the introduction to grab your reader’s attention and let them know what the main idea of your paper is. The introduction of the paper begins here in the first paragraph of your paper, on the line following the paper title. Indent the first sentence of each paragraph by pressing the tab key on your keyboard. Double-space throughout the paper, including the title page, abstract, body of the document, and References page. APA uses a traditional font style such as Times New Roman, and a 12 point font size.
We have a lot of help to make sure our formating is right. we have tools like Easybib and we have a librarian available to help us. Both of the help sources can be
The following guidelines are followed by most faculty members on most Walden coursework, theses, and dissertations. Occasionally, Walden faculty will ask for slight variations on these rules.
Using the APA writing style in academic writing allows the author to present material in a widely recognized and accepted format, therefore the basic presentation of the research is not controversial or confusing, and the reader can focus on the content rather than the format of the presentation. (in-text citation) For example, the use of 1-inch margins on each side of the page, double-spacing, and a sans-serif twelve (12) point
Association, published in 2010. These standards are intended to provide an overview of APA formatting necessary for
First, you have to think about how you want to identify your sources. If your sources are very important to your ideas, you should mention the author and work in a sentence that introduces your citation. If, however, you are only citing the source to make a minor point, you may consider using parenthetical references, footnotes, or endnotes.
Typing Template for APA Papers: A Sample of Proper Formatting for the APA 6th Edition Sheela Jose
The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides guidelines for documentation style. This template is based on commonly used guidelines from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th edition) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd edition). For more information about MLA style and publications, go to the MLA website at: www.mla.org.
Referencing is one of the most important aspects of any academic literature in the modern day scenario. It is the main way through which someone acknowledges the fact that they have borrowed the ideas of someone else, and have used their work for citation ion their work. There are several different kinds of referencing system among which the Harvard referencing style is one of the most popular. The different aspects of the Harvard style along with the main methods through which the style is implemented have been detailed and discussed. Herein, this study is about the Harvard referencing style and detailing the actual point of referencing in the first place.