1. APA CITATION
Week 8

2. FOR APA CITATION GUIDANCE
 An excellent website to know is the Purdue Online Writing
webpage. Otherwise known as OWL.
 OWL will break down APA citation for you.
 Let’s go there now to check it out:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

3. APA CITATION FORMATION
 Here is what an APA citation for a book would look like:
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle.
Location: Publisher.
**It’s always a good idea to list the city and state in the citation! Put the state
in the appropriate two letter abbreviation. (IN, MA…)
**Remember you might have to do some investigative work on your end to
find out where the book was published. You can always use
www.worldcat.org and www.amazon.com to help you with this.

4.  Here is what an APA citation for an article would look
like:
Smyth, A. M., Parker, A. L., & Pease, D. L. (2002). A study
of enjoyment of peas. Journal of Abnormal Eating, 8(3),
120-125.
You should have all this information on your homework
assignments already as you have been collecting this
information all along.

5.  Here is what an APA citation would look like for a
website:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of
document. Retrieved from http://Web address
King, S. (2005) On writing. Retrieved from
http://www.king.com

6. THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
 We never use full first names only the initials.
 Only the FIRST word is capitalized in titles.
Exception would be for proper nouns.
 You must list the full title of the resource.
 If you have six or more authors, there is a special
way to list them. Refer to an APA guide or OWL
for help.

7. THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
 We never use full first names only the initials.
 Only the FIRST word is capitalized in titles.
Exception would be for proper nouns.
 You must list the full title of the resource.
 If you have six or more authors, there is a special
way to list them. Refer to an APA guide or OWL
for help.