APA PRESENTATION

1. How not to quote in the text

What does APA Manual say?Always provide • author• Year• specific page citation or paragraph number for nonpaginated material• If the anem of the author appears as part of the narrative, cite only the

year of publication in parantheses

Interpreting these results, Robbins et al. (2003) suggested that the “therapists in droupout cases may have inadvertently validated parental negativity about the adolescent without adequately responding to the adolescent’s needs or concerns” (p 541), contributing to an overall climate of negativity

Correct Quotation

How to quote one work by multiple authors

• Two authors, cite both names every time the reference occurs in text• Three, four or five authors, cite all authors the first time the refence occurs; in

subsequent citations, include only the surname of the first author followed by “et al.” and the yeart if it is the first citation of the reference withtin a paragraph

Kisangau, Lyaruu, Hosea, and Joseph (2007) found … (First citation in text)Kisangau et al (2007) found (subsequent first citation per paragraph)Kisangau et al found (Omit year from subsequent citations after first nonparenthical ciation within a paragraph)

Groups as Authors• Name of groups that serve as author are spelled out each time they appear in a

text citation• If the name is long and the abbreviation is familiar, they are spelled out in the

first citation and abbreviated thereafter

• Elements: author, year of publication and publishing data– Author, A.A. (1967) Title of Work. Location:

Publisher• Double-spaced• Entries with hanging indent

REFERENCE LIST

• Arrange entries in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author followed by initinals of the author’s given name

• Remember that nothing precedes something: Lopez, M.E

Lopez de Molina, G

• One-author entries by the same author are arranged by year of publication, the earliest first

• One-author entries precede multiple author entries beginning with the same surname

• Reference by the same author with the same publication date are arranged alphabetically by title

Reference: One work by Multiple Authors

• Invert all authors’ names; give surnames and initials for up to and including seven authors

Author, A.A., Author B.B., & Author, C.C. (1975) Title.Location: Pubisher.

• When the authors are eight or more, incluce the first six authors’ name:– Gilbert, D. G., McCleron, J. F., Rabinovich, N. E.,

Sugai, C., Plath, L. C., Assagard, G., …Botros,N. (2004) Effects of quitting smoking on EEG

Reference: Group Author

• Spell out the full name of the group authorU.S. Departrnent of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (2003). Managing asthma: A guide for schools (NIH Publication No. 02-2650). Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/lung/asthma/asth_sch.pdf

Reference: No author

• Move the title to the author position, before the date of publication

Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang initiative conference. (2006, November/December). OJJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncjrs.gov/htmllojjdp/news_acglance/216684/topstory.htm