APA Citation Guide  

Basics of APA Style - Go directly to Slide 18 for info on how to prepare the Reference list (of works cited).

Learn APA Style - Link to many other useful learning tools on the APA  web site.  

Avoid using quotes "cited in" other works.  

If you do use a "cited in" quote, adjust the words outside the parentheses to indicate who is being quoted. 

• As Johnson notes... (Webber, 1992)
• Do not use (Johnson, cited in Webber, 1992)

APA Style is the official guidelines adopted by the American Psychological Association.  It is most commonly used for formatting manuscripts and citing materials in the sciences.

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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Ed

Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2010 Ready Reference

 

The DOI is a permanent identifier, mainly used for electronic documents.  The International DOI Foundation (IDF) defines DOI as “a digital identifier for any object of intellectual property."  It is like an ISBN for digital documents. 

DOIs are not like URLs.  You cannot put the DOI in a search engine and expect to find the article. 

Instead, go to the DOI resolver site and paste it in the search box to locate your document.   Click on this picture to go to the site: