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Pan American International SchoolINTRODUCTION TO SENIOR PROJECT

Mrs Padovani

APA style

for senior project

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Index

Formatting conventions

IDirect quotes info

Plagiarism

Appropriate level of citation

IIn-text citations

References

Basic Principles

Paraphrasing and quotations

FORMATTING CONVENTIONS

LINE SPACINGINDENTATION REFERENCE INDENTATION

Changes in 7th edition

FONTS

CONTRIBUTORS

TITLE PAGE

  • Films IDirector)
  • TV series (Exec producer)
  • Podcast (Host)
  • Webinar (Instructor)
  • Online streaming video (person who uploaded the video)

Title paper in boldstudent name school course professor due date

  • Calibri 11
  • Arial 11
  • Licida Sans Unicode 10
  • Times New Roman 12.
  • Georgia 11

FORMATTING CONVENTIONS

LINE SPACINGINDENTATION REFERENCE INDENTATION

Changes in 7th edition

FONTS

CONTRIBUTORS

TITLE PAGE

  • Films IDirector)
  • TV series (Exec producer)
  • Podcast (Host)
  • Webinar (Instructor)
  • Online streaming video (person who uploaded the video)

Title paper in boldstudent name school course professor due date

  • Calibri 11
  • Arial 11
  • Licida Sans Unicode 10
  • Times New Roman 12.
  • Georgia 11

Appropriate level of citation

NUMBER OF SOURCES

PROVIDE CREDIT WHEN:

AVOID

  • OVERCITATION (distracting)
  • UNDERCITATION (plagiarism)

Depends on the requirement of the paper.

  • PARAPHRASING
  • QUOTING
  • REFERING TO DATA
  • USING TABLES/IMAGES

BASIC PRINCIPLES

FOR CITATION

IN-TEXT identifies cited work Must appear in reference list and vice versa

AUTHOR-DATE Brief in text that directs readers to reference list in alphabetical order.

QUOTATIONS

PARAPHRASING

Repeats words verbatim

Restates another`s ideas or words

Use sparingly

If the same source is used in the same paragraph it should be mentioned once

VS

  • exact definition
  • author said sth memorable
  • responding to author

Cite source again if a new paragraph begins

Use when:

  • SHORT: -40 words. " "
  • LONG: +40 words. indent block

Allows you to fit material to context

APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF CITATION

SUBTITLE HERE

In-text citations

NARRATIVE

PARENTHETICAL

incorporated into text

Source mentioned at the end of sentence

(year)

(author, year)

VS

ATTENTION: coma in between

Mention year after author's name

Use signal verbs: xxx argues that... concludes / maintains / responds / claims / etc

In-text citations

PUNCTUATION

DO NOT PLACE A COMMA AFTER THAT WHEN INTRODUCING QUOTE

PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO QUOTATION MARKS " " OR ' ' ?

VS

iN THAT CASE THE PERIOD GOES AFTER THE PARENTHESIS

PUNCTUATION MARK GOES INSIDE " " EXCEPT WHEN PARENTHETICAL REFERENCE FOLLOWS

FOR QUOTATIONS INCLUDE PAGE NUMBER OR PARAGRAPH NUMBER IN PARENTHETICAL CITATION AT THE END

PLAGIARISM

  • Denies author's credit
  • Presents words, ideas, or images of another as your own
  • Violates ethical standards
  • Avoid PATCHWRITING (few changes)

REFERENCES

WORK THAT SPECIFICALLY SUPPORTS CLAIMS AND CONCEPTS IN A PAPER. Different from BIBLIOGRAPHY: Provides work for background and further reading URL (uniform resource location) provides location of digital information DOI (digital object identifier) persistent link. Used for database records (USE IF AVAILABLE)

iF MISSING INFORMATION...

Thank you!

https://apastyle.apa.org/