APA, 5th Edition Made Easy How A Scholarly Paper Should Look

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APA, 5th Edition Made EasyHow A Scholarly Paper
Should Look

• By Freda Turner, Ph.D.
• Updated 11/2002
• Fturner_at_email.uophx.edu

UOP
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Basics

• Font Courier, Times New Roman, 12 point
• Margins, 1.0 all around- ragged right margin
• left margin can be l.5 inches if instructor
  has requested the paper to be bound.
• Everything is double spaced this includes
  quotes and reference page.

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Title Page

• Page numbers start with title page by setting
  header feature of your software.
• Header includes 2 or 3 words from title, then 5
  spaces and page number. See example of Title
  Page on next slide.
• See example of a title page on the next slide.

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Title Page

• Page numbers start with title page by setting
  header feature of your software.
• Header includes 2 or 3 words from title, then 5
  spaces and page number. See example of Title
  Page on next slide.
• See example of a title page on the next slide.

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Title page 1
Running head YOUR TITLE
Appropriate Title
Your name University of Phoenix          
See example on page 306 of APA handbook, 5th
edition
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(No Transcript)
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Text pages

• Title of paper is centered on first page of text.
• All paragraphs are indented 5-7 spaces
• Everything is double spaced
• Must have at least 2 lines of a paragraph at the
  bottom of the page and 2 at the top of the page.

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2 Easy Rules on Quotes

• 1. Short quotes with fewer than 40 words are
  incorporated into text and enclosed by quotation
  marks.
• Example Approximately 27 of the workforce
  displays poor emotional intelligence (Miele,
  1993, p. 276).

(Publication Manual, 2001, p. 118)
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Block Quote over 40 words

• Miele (1993) found the following
• The placebo effect, which had been
• verified in previous studies disappeared
  when
• behaviors were studied in this manner.
• The behaviors were not exhibited again
• even when real drugs were given. (p. 40)

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Electronic Quotes

• Documents retrieved from the Internet should
  include Internet source, document title, date
  retrieved (URL or uniform resource locator).
  Remember, properly cited sources add to the
  researchers credibility.
• Electronic Example
• As Myers (2000, para. 5) aptly phrased it,
• positive emotions are great.

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Citations

• (Cheek Turner, 1981, p. 332)  
• (Jones, 1989, chap. 3)
•  (Myers, 2000, 5)
•  (Bow, 2000, Summary section, para. 1)

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Reference or References

• Reference page follows text and references must
  be discussed and cited in text.
• If you have 5 references listed on your reference
  page, you must have citations in the text.

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Watch reference indentations!

• Double space references.
• First line is flush left with remaining
• lines of reference indented 5 spaces
• Next slide provides an example

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Example 4
References

• Elkind, D. (1978). The child's reality Three
• developmental themes. New York
• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
•      
• Issac, G. (1995). Is solar disorder timed?
• Adolescents, 30 (118), 273-276.
• -

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No Author Reference Citation

• Book, no author or editor
• Merriam-Websters collegiate dictionary
• (10th ed.). (1993). Springfield, MA
  
• Merriam-Webster.

Note references are flush left with 2nd 3rd
lines indented
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No Author, Web Citation

• Title of article. (1987). Retrieved from URL
• _____ on 7/7/2002.
• Another example
• History of South West Airlines. Retrieved
• ProQuest at UOP online on 7/7/2002.

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Electronic retrieved material

• Borman, W. C. (2001). Role of supervisor
• Journal of Applied Psychology, 78,
  443-449.
• Retrieved October 23, 2002, from UOP
• ProQuest data.
• OR
• Jones, G. (2001). Role of reference elements.
• Prevention Research, 5, 117-123.
  Retrieved
• October 13, 2001 http//jbr.org/article.h
  tml

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Newspaper Article, Electronic version

• Hills, P. J. (1999, February 16). In
• forecasting their emotions, most
• people flunk out. New York Times.
• Retrieved November 21, 2000, from
• http//www/nytimes.com.

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Computer Software Reference

• Miller, M. E. (1993). The Interactive
• Tester (Version 4.0) Computer
• software. Westminter, CA Psytek
• Services.

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No Author/no Date Example

• Alphabetize works with no author by the first
  word in the title. Example
• The new health-care lexicon. (1993,
• August/September). Health Care Today, 4,
  
• 1-2.
• Or (NO AUTHOR, NO DATE)Document
  title or name of Web page. (n.d.)
• Retrieved date from URL

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Same Author Variables (see p. 221) arrange
alphabetically by title

• Jones, J. R. (2001a). Control.
• Jones, J. R. (2001b). Roles of .

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Same Authors, Different Year of Publication
list earliest publication first (see p. 220, APA,
5th edition).

• Jones, J. R. , Wright, K. (2000).
• Jones, J. R. , Wright, K. (2001).

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Common Knowledge    Exception to the
citation rule Common knowledgecommonly known
facts (e.g., Washington D.C. is the capital of
the U.S.) does not need a citation even if one
had to look up the data.When in doubt, CITE
references and citations
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Adding Emphasis

• If you want to emphasize a word or words,
  italicize them. Do not put them in quotations
  marks.
• Wrong He is politically correct.
• Correct He is politically correct.

Information on emphasis added to original
presentation by Bette Keeling, PhD, RN, CNAA
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Tables

• Table usually presents quantitative data and if
  included must be discussed in text and should be
  on the same page as discussed for reader ease.
• Everything is double spaced
• Number all tables with Arabic numbers (1,2,3),
  double space and add a clear title.
• Clarify where the copied table originated.
• Example that goes above your table
• Table 1
• Analysis of Grade Variance

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Figures

• Each figure is numbered consecutively in the
  order in which they are first mentioned in the
  text.
• Figures are photographs, drawings or
  non-quantitative data.
• Each figure must have a caption and is located at
  the top left.
• Example
• Figure 1. Gender Differences

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Order of APA Pages

• Title page with header, title, byline and school
  name
• Abstract if required by professor
• Text pages-remember title
• Reference Page/s get their own page

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Common APA FeloniesFailure to

• Double space EVERYTHING
• Remember ragged right edge
• Quotes need 3 things (authors last name, year of
  publication and pg/para number,
  URL, chapter, etc.)
• References flush left for first line and never
  use authors first name, only initials.

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What is newUpdates on apastyle.org

• APA is easy

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Consequences of not citing is called

• Plagiarism

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Roots of Plagiarism

• The word plagiarism
• is derived from a Latin word for manstealer,
  or kidnapper, and by extension literary thief.

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Plagiarism is using anothers

• Words/Facts
• Graphs/Charts
• Direct quotes

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Alarming 2001 Statistics

• Rutgers survey of 4,500 high school students
  2,100 students at 21 colleges illustrates the
  issue
• 74 admitted to some kind of cheating.
• 90 of students believe that cheaters are either
  never caught or have never been appropriately
  disciplined-- US News and World Report poll
• (Straw, 2002, para. 1)

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How Universities are responding

• 1. Cornell students- take courses that define
  boundaries of academic integrity.
• 2. Colgate University and Kansas State
  University require plagiarism orientation
  sessions.
• 3. Trinity College students sign integrity
  contract.
• University of North Carolina Established a
  Police Blotter of cheating incidents.
• 5. A June 2002 New Jersey Superior Court Judge
  upheld Princeton University.

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University of Phoenix

• University of Phoenix Academic Policy
• Students are subject to disciplinary
• actions for intentionally or knowingly
• representing the words or ideas of
• another as one's own in an academic
• exercise.

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APA, 5th Edition revised 11/2002

• Send comments/recommendations to Dr. Freda Turner
• fturner_at_email.uophx.edu