Paper Formatting Tip: All parts of your paper should: have 1 inch margins be double-spaced use only normal double spacing after paragraphs (no extra spaces) use 12 point Times New Roman font Header Tip: The first page’s header section is different than the headers on the rest of the paper. This header should include: a page number (right justified) the words Running head: title in ALL CAPS (abbreviate if over 50 characters) Be sure to left-justify the text in the header. Double check to make sure you use Times New Roman 12 point font in your header!
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Citing Sources in APA Style Your Full Name Rasmussen College
Title Tip: Position your title in the upper half of the paper. Start approximately …show more content…
Notice that when this happens, only the year of publication is placed in parentheses. According to Robins (2009), once you have included a citation like this, you can from then on refer to the author without using the date. Robins notes you must be sure your reader will not be confused with another author cited elsewhere in your paper. Finally, note that if you use a parenthetical reference at the end of the sentence, your author‟s name must always be followed by the date. Types of In-Text Citations for Direct Quotes A second situation when an in-text citation is needed is when you use the exact words of your source, or a direct quote. Direct quotes need to be enclosed in quotation marks. The following sentence contains a direct quote. Amato (2009) notes that APA requires a quote to be “in quotations marks to indicate that it is indeed a quote, rather than a paraphrase” (p. 60). You will notice that this type of citation is different from the in-text citations for paraphrases and summaries because it includes the page number where the words in quotations can be located. A quotation from a web page should include the paragraph number if there are no page numbers. Notice APA uses the abbreviation of p. for page and para. for paragraph and that there is a space between the p. and the actual page number. In-Text Citations with Multiple Authors If you have information from a resource with two authors, you list both authors within the in-text …show more content…
Here is an example of this type of in-text citation from a web page: “because online materials can potentially change URLs, APA recommends providing a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), when it is available, as opposed to the URL” (Angeli et al., 2011, para. 3). Indirect Quotes, Block Quotes, and Personal Communications If you are quoting a quote that someone else used, known as an indirect quote, your intext citation should refer to the source you actually had in hand. Do not refer to the item that your source used. In addition, you will want to acknowledge that your source quoted someone else. For example, imagine you had an article written by Klein. In the article, Klein quoted from another source, say The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). You want to use the quote from CMS, but you don‟t actually have the CMS in your possession. You would quote Klein and the CMS in the following way: According to Klein, APA‟s Publication Manual does not cover all issues. Specifically, APA‟s Publication Manual does not cover the spacing between single and double quotation marks. In cases such as these, Klein says to “follow The Chicago Manual of Style, which states „no space need be added between the two except as a typographical nicety‟ ” (Klein, 2011, p. 1). Notice that Klein‟s words are in double quotation marks and the words