Some final APA tips

1
Some final APA tips
2
Reference list

• OK to call this References or Works Cited
• Some unusual ones that we have encountered
• Cleveland Indians Logo Edited From Caps. (1997,
  April 22). Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved
  from http//www.cleveland.com (Note it is
  usually OK to just give the homepage of big
  sites, especially if they have a Search
  capability on them also can use Corporate
  Author)
• Cleveland Plain Dealer. (1997, April 22).
  Cleveland Indians Logo Edited From Caps.
  Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved from
  http//www.cleveland.com
• Goldsmith, J., Wu, T., Fisk, F.W., Hartley, G.,
  Weaver, W. (2011). The History of the World. New
  York, NY Random House.
• Harris, I. (2000). Types of peace education. In
  L. Oppenheimer, A. Ravi (Eds.), How We
  Understand Peace (pp. 22-33). Belmont, CA
  Wadsworth. (eBrary)
• Tennent, H. (n.d.). Politics and humanity. Online
  Originals. Retrieved from http//onlineoriginals.
  com.

3

• White, B. (1995). The Middle East. New York, NY
  Scribner.
• White, B. (2012a). The crisis of Islam Holy war
  and unholy terror. New York, NY Modern Library.
• White, B. (2012b, April 22). The coming anarchy
  Shattering the dreams of Islam. Time 175(18), 53
  ?? 55.
• Young, G., Fosdick, M. (2011). Deception in
  experiments Revisiting the arguments in its
  defense. Ethics Behavior 18(3), 59 ?? 92.
  doi 10.1080/105065432456754.

4
In-text use of those sources

• The Seattle Times went so far as to digitally
  remove the Indians logo from images of Cleveland
  Indians baseball caps (Cleveland Indians,
  1997). If Corporate Author used, its (Cleveland
  Plain Dealer, 1997).
• The world has a complex history, one that
  arguably will never be completely or even
  sufficiently understood (Goldsmith, Wu, Fisk,
  Hartley Weaver, 2011).
• Later Goldsmith et al. (2011) go on to argue
  that (Note use this format for three to five
  authors for six or more just Smith et al.
  (2014) said that )
• According to Harris (2000), children need to be
  taught the meaning of peace. Harris (2000)
  emphasizes that children, especially those below
  the age of 10, often assume that all humans are
  innately peaceful at heart (p. 123).

5

• Governments in Central Europe in the Middle Ages
  typically lasted for more than 40 years
  (Tennent).
• White (2012b) maintains that the Arab Spring has
  failed to realize the potential for Islamists to
  consolidate their power in the Mediterranean
  region.
• A survey of researchers (Young Fosdick, 2011)
  found that as many as 25 percent felt it was
  acceptable to deceive subjects in psychological
  experiments.
• Note that all the references must be cited in the
  text, and all the in-text citations must be in
  the References (Works Cited) list.

6
Cites of cites

• You have a paper written by Jones in 2011. In it,
  Jones paraphrases and cites Smith, which you did
  not read.
• Your cite should look like this if you paraphrase
  what Jones wrote about Smiths work
• Research by Smith indicates that people who
  regularly use the Internet are more likely to say
  they are satisfied in their relationship (Jones,
  2011).
• You have a paper by Beatty and Olson, written in
  2010, in which they quote Small, which you did
  not read.
• Your cite should look like this
• According to Small, Cyber terrorism is likely to
  be the primary threat to the United States in the
  foreseeable future (as cited in Beatty Olson,
  2010, p. 178).
• In both cases only include the sources you read
  (Jones, and Beatty Olson) in your Works Cited
  list.

7
Things to remember

• No underline or blue text for links
• No month for academic journals
• No city or publisher for academic journals
• Italics for journal/book/publication, not for
  article titles
• Date format is (2015, March 22)
• DOI should only be for books/academic journals
• Books need city, publisher Camden, MA
  McGraw-Hill
• No credentials fro author (not Jones, R. Ph.D.)
• Authors are last name, initials, and Jones,
  R., Smith, J.
• No ProQuest or Summon (dbproxy) URLs
• Some items are (ProQuest Central) or
  (Lexis-Nexis)
• Alphabetical order by author hanging indents