HOSP2040 Human Resource Management in Service Organizations: APA Citation Help

In class assignment.

Choose a book, a journal article and a website article using at least one of the keywords. Complete a reference list using APA style. When you are finished with the assignment, email it as an attachment to Jean.Moats@jwu.edu

Thank you.

What are the pieces and parts you need in order to create an APA citation correctly?

Author: Who is responsible for this work?

Date: When was the work published?

Title: What is this work called?

Source: Where can I retrieve this work?

In-text citations: for summaries or paraphrases of information

According to Jones (1998), APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners.  Use when the author's name is in the sentence.

APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998, p. 199). Use when the author is not mentioned directly in the sentence.

In-text citations: for direct quotations

If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by "p." for a single page and “pp.” for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash).

You can introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author's last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses.

According to Jones (1998), "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).

Jones (1998) found "students often had difficulty using APA style" (p. 199); what implications does this have for teachers?

If you do not include the author’s name in the text of the sentence, place the author's last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.

She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.

How to Format the Reference List.

Begin the reference list on a new page after the text.

Place the section label "References" in bold at the top of the page, centered.

Put the reference list entries in order alphabetically by author's last name or the first word of the entry.

Double space the entire reference list (both within and between entries).

Apply a hanging indent yo each reference list entry, meaning that the first line of the reference is flush left and subsequent lines are indented 0.5 inches from the left margin. 

Information from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.