APA STYLE

Plagiarism is

• Using someone else’s work or ideas as your own

• A new flavour of coffee

• A new dance move

Why reference?

• to protect copyright of the work

• to acknowledge work that is not your own

• to provide details of work for follow-up

• all answers are correct

When do you need to reference?

• When paraphrasing

• When I quote another person word by word

• When using tables and figures

• All answers are correct

What does APA stand for?

• All Paraphrasing Allowed

• American Psychiatric Association

• American Psychological Association

In-text referencing

• is used in the body of your essay

• provides the year of publication and page number/s

• provides the author's surname

• all of the above

In an APA list of references

• book titles are italicised

• magazine volumes are needed

• all of answers are correct

In an APA list of references you capitalise all words in

• a journal title

• a magazine title

• a newspaper title

• all of the above

1. According to APA format, the list of references which appear at the end of your paper is called:

• Bibliography

• Work Cited

• References

• List of references

The references at the end of your paper should appear

• in alphabetical order by authors’ surname or by title (if there is no author), regardless of type of reference (book, film journal article, website, etc.).

• under separate subheadings according to type of source.

• first under those with authors, then those without.

• numbered in the order in which they appear.

What is the correct author and year format for a journal article in a reference list?

• Brill, J. B. (2011)

• Brill, JB (2011)

• Brill, J.B. 2011

• John Brill, 2011