What is APA Format?
APA Format is...
- Style guide for formatting text, headings, title page, etc.
- Published in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, with the 7th edition being the most recent
- Preferred by ERAU College of Engineering
- Updated online at apastyle.apa.org
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed. by Call Number: BF76.7.P83 2020ISBN: 9781433832161Publication Date: 2019-10-01Print book in the library
The Concise APA Handbook by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781648021848Publication Date: 2021-02-01eBook access through ProQuest eBook Central
Citing in Presentations
In presentations, you cite your sources twice.
1. You use an in-text citation if you use a quote within the presentation. Images also get cited when they are shown, but follow different rules, which will be shown below.
2. You have a final slide of references that lists everything cited in the presentation in proper APA format.
Images
Within the presentation, the format is:
Title, author, date, site name (URL). License
Tamarin, Bradley Tinney, 2013, Flickr (https://flic.kr/p/iKYHKR). CC BY.
Within the references, the format is:
Author. (Year). Title. Site name. URL
Tinney, B. (2013). Tamarin. Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/iKYHKR
Online Resources
- APA Student Paper Setup GuideCreated by APA, this documents details how to format a student paper in APA style.
- APA 7th Cheat SheetQuick style sheet for the most common references and in-text citations
- APA Reference GuideA quick color-coded guide from APA on formatting books, book chapters, and journal articles.
- The Legal Bluebook - Quick Style GuideFor legal citations
- Purdue OWL APAFrom the Purdue Online Writing Lab, this site covers the 7th edition of the APA style manual.
Sample Bibliographic Entries
Book by a single author
Spillers, C. (2016). Confessions of an undercover agent: Adventures, close calls, and the toll of a double life. University Press of Mississippi.
Book by more than one author:
Wittman, R.K., & Kinney, D. (2016). The devil's diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the stolen secrets of the Third Reich. Harper.
Magazine Article, No Author Named:
The eternal quest for youth; EU Referendum Campaign. (2016). The Economist.
Article from Online Journal:
Comiskey, J. (2015). How do college homeland security curricula prepare students for the field? Journal of Homeland Security Education(4), 20-40. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139198875.005
Article from online Newspaper:
Bogdanich, W., Williams, J., & Mendez, A.G. Mendez. (2016, June 23). The new Panama Canal: A risky bet. New York Times. https://nyti.ms/28Td9co
In-text Citations
After a quotation or a paraphrase, include an in-text citation. APA follows the Author-Date citation system.
Single Author
(Spillers, 2016)
Multiple Authors
(Wittman & Kinney, 2016)
Multiple Works
(Spillers, 2016; Wittman & Kinney, 2016)
No Author
(Title of book/article title, 2017)
Secondary Sources
If you want to cite a source that is cited in the source you are using, that's called a secondary source. You cite the source you are using and getting your information from, but you acknowledge the original source. So, the in-text citation would credit the original source as well as your source. Your bibliography would include only your source.
Example of in-text citation:
According to a study by Smith (as cited in Hanrahan, et al., 2005)...
Example of Reference list citation:
Hanrahan, P., McCoy, M. L., Cloninger, L., Dincin, J., Zeitz, M. A., Simpatico, T. A., & Dincin, J. (2005). The Mothers’ Project for homeless mothers with mental illnesses and their children: A pilot study. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 28(3), 291-294. https://doi.org/10.2975/28.2005.291.294