Monthly Archives: May 2008
APA 5 Citing Books
Typical Book Entry — single author
Arnheim, R. (1971). Art and visual perception. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
The AUTHOR’S NAME is first followed by the DATE OF PUBLICATION, in parentheses, ended with a period.
Next include the BOOK TITLE in italics.
Capitalize only the first word of the title and proper names.
Include any additional information [...]
APA 5 Citing Journals
Citing Articles in Journals with Continuous Pagination
Passons, W. (1967). Predictive validities of the ACT, SAT, and high school grades for first semester GPA and freshman courses. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 27, 11431144.
Citing Articles in Journals Paginated by Issue
Sawyer, J. (1966). Measurement and prediction, clinical and statistical. Psychological Bulletin, 66 (3), 178-200.
Because pagination begins anew with [...]
Ben’s Mac Powerbook power adapter frayed and fried
So the day after I found out the problem with Ben’s keyboard and found a used Powerbook 12″ keyboard on macrecycling.com, Ben brought up his power adapter and showed me a bit of a disaster. It was unusable, and it could no longer power his computer.
You may notice that it had finally died when it [...]
APA 5 In-Text Citations
You can find information about in-text reference citations on pages 207-214 of the APA Publication Manual.
APA style requires authors to use the past tense or present past tense when using signal phrases to describe earlier research. E.g., Jones (1998) found or Jones (1998) has found…
APA Citation Basics
When using APA format, follow [...]