1. APA Style
Basic APA Citation Format

2. Plagiarism (from Student Handbook)
1. Submitting a term paper, examination or other work written by someone else. This
is a flagrant instance of plagiarism.
2. Failure to give credit in a footnote for ideas, statements of facts or conclusions
derived by another.
3. Failure to use quotation marks when quoting directly from another person,
whether it is a paragraph, a sentence or even a part thereof.
4. Close and extended paraphrasing of another.

3. General Elements
Reference
Author. (Date). Title of work. Publisher/Retrieval data.
In Text
(Author’s Last Names, Publication Year)

4. Book
Reference Page
Schroeder, A. (2008). The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life.
New York, NY: Bantam Books.
In Text Citation
(Schroeder, 2008) OR According to Schroeder (2008)….

5. Journal from a database
Reference Page
Goolsbee, A. & Syverson, C. (2008, November). How do incumbents respond to the
threat of entry? Evidence from the major airlines. The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 123, 1611-1633. Retrieved from: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/
In Text Citation
(Goolsbee & Syverson, 2008) OR According to Goolsbee and Syverson (2008)….

6. Website
Reference Page
Humana. (2013). Humana on health care reform. Retrieved from
https://www.humana.com/about/public-policy/humana-on-the-issues/healthcare-
reform
In Text Citation
(Humana, 2013) OR Humana’s (2008) website….

7. Variations
•No author = start citation with title
•No date = (n.d.)
•Multiple authors
•Quotations and in text citations
(author, date, p., pp. or para. #)
•DOI number