APA Citation Style How to use EndNote

Created by Ashkan Rangamiztousi

PhD candidate in Management June 2012

APA is used to provide a consistent format across a discipline. APA stands for American

Psychological Association

 

 

Why Use APA Style?

•  APA style has been adopted by all 27 APA journals (Msetfi,2009) and 1000 psychology journals worldwide (plus others)

ü To provide a consistent format across a discipline ü To allow for readers to easily cross reference your

work ü  To lend credibility to your writing ü  To protect yourself from plagiarism  

Basic Source Choice

•  Books •  Trade or academic magazines •  Journals •  Periodicals

•  NO popular magazines •  NO encyclopedias

•  NO Wikipedia articles  

**(Book)**

Last name, First initial. (Year published). Title of the Book. Location: Publisher

**(Electronic version of a Print Book)** Last name, First initial. (Year published). Title of

the Book[ XXX reader version]. Retrieved from http://www.nameofsite.xxx

**(Journal Article)** Last name, First initial. (Year published). Title of the

Journal, volume(issue), pages. (If the journal paginates continuously by volume no

issue number is needed.) **( Electronicly retrieved Journal Article with no

doi )** Last name, First initial. (Year published) Title of the

Article. Title of the Journal, Volume(issue), page numbers. Retrieved from http://www.nameofsite.xxx

**( Journal Article with doi )**

Last name, First initial. (Year published). Title of the Journal, Volume, page numbers doi:xx.xxxxxxxx

   

**(Magazine Article)** Last name, first initial. (Year published/month).

Title of the Article. Title of the Publication, Volume(edition), page numbers.

**(Electronically retrieved Magazine Article)** Last name, first initial. (Year published/ month)

Title of the Article. Title of the Publication, Volume(edition), page numbers. Retrieved from http://www.nameofsite.xxx

 

(Last name, year of publication) •  Do not rename the author in the citation if you have

attributed the work in the sentence. •  (Incorrect) Joseph Robertshaw said in his Power

Point presentation that double naming an author was not acceptable (Robertshaw, 2010).

•  (Parenthetical) Joseph Robertshaw said in his Power Point presentation that double naming an author was not acceptable (2010).

•  (Textual) In 2010, Joseph Robertshaw said in his Power Point presentation that double naming an author was not acceptable.

 

Green, Sean P., Shriberg, Donna, & Farber, Samuel. L. (2008). What’s Gender Got To Do With Teachers’ Perception of Situation Severity and Requests for Assistance. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 18, 346-373.

Meyerhoff, M. (1998). Accommodating your data: the use and misuse of accommodation theory in

sociolinguistics. Language & Communication, 18, 205-225. Otnes, C., Kim, K. & Kim, Y. C. (1994). Yes, Virginia, There is a Gender Difference: Analyzing Children’s

Requests to Santa Claus. Journal of Popular Culture, 28. Oliver, B. (2000). Freud and the question of mediated social behaviour. Society in Transition, 31, 163-174. Phillipsen, L. C. (1999) Associations Between Age, Gender, and Group Acceptance and Three

Components of Friendship Qualities. Journal of Early Adolescence, 4(1), 438-464. Ruzickova, E. (2007). Strong and mild requestive hints and positive-face redress in Cuban Spanish.

Journal of Pragmatics,vol. 39, 1170-1202. Seargeant, P. (2009). Language ideology, language theory, and the regulation of linguistic behaviour.

Language Sciences, 31, 345-359. Wilson, D. W. (1980). Ambiguity and Helping Behavior. New York:Penguin, The Journal of Social

Psychology, 112, 155-156. Wilson, T. P. (1970). Conceptions of Interaction and Forms of Sociological Explanation. American

Sociological Review, 697-710

List of helpful links to online APA style guides •  http://www.apastyle.org/manual/ •  http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/

citation/apa/ •  http://www.docstyles.com/archive/apacrib.pdf •  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/create-

a-bibliography-HA010067492.aspx •  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ •  http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/apastyle.htm •  http://www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/apa4b.htm •  http://www.capilanou.ca/programs/psychology/

students/apa/quick-apa.html

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