APA citation style

1. TSEM:
Plagiarism and
APA Style
Laksamee Putnam – Research &
Instruction Librarian
Slides:
http://bit.ly/tsemthompsonsp17c1
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2. First…
 Laksamee Putnam
 lputnam@towson.edu
 Cook Library Reference:
 410.704.2462.
 IM/email
 Phone: 410.704.3746.
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 Albert S. Cook Facebook profile

3. Agenda
 Class discussion
 APA citation style
 APA practice

4. It’s out there, why not reuse it?
ImagebyDuaneHoffmann
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32657885
Sydell. L. (2015) Online stars feel cheated
as YouTube/Facebook battle over videos.
All Tech Considered/Morning Edition.
http://bit.ly/youtubevsfacebookvideo
Lang, J.M. (2015) Cheating inadvertently.
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Retrieved from
http://chronicle.com/article/Cheating-
Inadvertently/229883/
Godin, S. (2014) Why I want you to steal
my ideas. ideas.ted.com Retrieved from
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/02/03/the-big-
mistake-we-all-make-about-ideas/
• What is your definition of
plagiarism?
• What makes some
plagiarism “wrong” or
“right”?
• Which was your favorite
article? Why?

5. Pre-class citation
Cite this article: http://bit.ly/RYQ2Nz
Kinlaw, C.R., Dunlap, L.L., & D’Angelo, J.A.
(2012). Relations between faculty use of
online academic resources and student class
attendance. Computers & Education, 59(2),
167-172. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.12.028

6. APA Style
 Citations

7. APA Style
 References

8. Style Manuals
 Different disciplines use different
style manuals
 Social Sciences = American
Psychological Association (APA)
 Humanities = MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers (MLA)

9. The point is…
 Acknowledge where you found the
information
 Briefly identify the source
 Allows others to find additional information

10. What needs to be cited?
 Books
 Web Pages
 Magazine articles
 Graphics
 VHS,DVD, audio, etc.
 Government reports
 Statistics
 Encyclopedia articles
 Any source of information!

11. What needs to be cited?
 Direct quotes
 Ideas borrowed
 Paraphrased material

12. In-text Citation needs:
 Direct Quote
 All authors’ last names
 Year of publication
 Page number
 Paraphrase
 All authors’ last names
 Year of publication

13. Direct Quote: In-text citation
 As researchers Yanovski and Yanovski (2002)
have explained, obesity was once considered
“either a moral failing or evidence of
underlying psychopathology” (p. 592).
OR
 A relationship is defined as “the
interdependence between two or more
people” (Coombs, 2001, p.106).

14. Direct Quote: In-text citation
 Longer than 40 words?
 Indented five spaces from left margin in block
format
 Usually it is better to paraphrase

15. The wrong way to paraphrase:
Failure to Cite Source
 Original
 “They desire, for
example, virtue and
the absence of vice, no
less really than
pleasure and the
absence of pain.”
 Source: Mill, John Stuart.
“Utilitarianism.” On Liberty and Other
Essays. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998. Quote is from page
169.
 Paraphrase
 People want morality
just as much as they
want happiness.

16. The wrong way to paraphrase:
Lack of Significant Rewording
 Original
 “To the young
American architects
who made the
pilgrimage, the most
dazzling figure of all
was Walter Gropius,
founder of the
Bauhaus School.”
 Source: Wolfe, Tom. From Bauhaus to
Our House. New York: Farrar Straus
Giroux, 1981. Quote is from page 10.
 Paraphrase
 To young American
architects who went to
Germany, the most
dazzling figure was
Walter Gropius,
founder of the
Bauhaus School
(Wolfe, 1981).

17. In-text Citations
 More than one author
 Two authors
 Greenfield and Savage (1990)
 (Greenfield & Savage, 1990, p. 567)
 Three to five authors
 You must first identify all of the authors either in the signal phrase or the first
citation.
 Terrace, Petitto, Sanders, and Bever (1979) believed…
 (Terrace, Petitto, Sanders, & Bever, 1979)
 After you have identified all, you may use “et al.”
 Terrace et al. (1979) stated……
 (Terrace et al., 1979)
 Six or more authors
 Use first authors last name and then et al.

18. In-text Citations
 Organization as author
 Government or other organization
 Use organization name as author in signal
phrase
 Use organization in parenthetical citation
 The National Institute of Mental Health (2001)…
 (National Institute of Mental Health, 2001)

19. Special cases
 If you have more than one author with the
same last name, use the first initial in the
citation
 (Smith, A., 2002)
 If you have more than one work in the same
year by the same author, use letters a, b, c,
etc. to indicate correct source
 (Entman, 2004a)

20. References
 The in-text citation must match up with the references entry
 Use the heading “References” at the top of a new page
 List entries alphabetically
 Author’s last name (if no author, then by organization name or
title)
 Double space each entry
 No extra spaces between entries
 If over one line, entry should have a hanging indent

22. References - Website
 Create a reference for this website
 Author or sponsoring organization:
 Last update or Copyright date?:
 Title of page:
 Format if applicable:
 Retrieved from:

23. References – Books
 Create a reference for this book
 Book authors or editors:
 Last name
 First letter of first name and middle initial
 Date of publication:
 Book Title:
 Publication information:
 City and state
 Publisher

24. References – Journals
 Create a reference for this journal article
 Article author:
 Last name
 First letter of first name and middle initial
 Date of publication:
 Article title:
 Periodical title:
 Publication information:
 Volume number and issue number (if available)
 Page numbers
 Digital Object Identifier number:

25. Journal Articles Extra Info
 Articles retrieved from a database such as
EBSCO or PsycINFO do not need to include
database information
 Articles not including a doi number should
contain the journal URL after the page
numbers such as
 Retrieved from http://js.sagamorepub.com/pe

26. Library Resources for APA

27. Citations Relay
 Rules:
 Only one person from each team maybe writing on
the board
 No corrections until after designated writer is
finished and the judge has checked the citation
 No cheating and using the built in citation creator!!!
 First team to complete the citation correctly wins!

28. Round 1 – Books
 Create the full APA reference for this book
 http://bit.ly/round1relay

29. Round 2 – Journal Article
 Create a full APA reference for this article
 http://bit.ly/round2relay

30. Practice creating citations
 Go here to practice more citations
 http://bit.ly/1UO9ZmP
 Please ask if you have questions!
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sessions here
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31. Questions?
 Feel free to contact me:
 Laksamee Putnam
 lputnam@towson.edu
 410.704.3746.
 Twitter: @CookLibraryofTU
 Or any reference librarian:
 Visit Cook Library Reference Desk
 410.704.2462.
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