1. APA Style
c 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