APA Style

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How to Cite in the Field of Social Science
By: Katy Fedurek

The most common style to site resources in the field of social sciences is APA (American Psychology Association) style.

How to Cite:
  • Paraphrase the text (put it in your own words) and give credit to the author.
  • Use quotation marks around the text that is copied word for word and give credit to the author.
How to Recognize Plagiarism:
  • Word-for-word: When you take seven or more words in a row from the original text and it is missing quotation marks, the fill-in text citation (including the details of the source including the author, date, and location) and the bibliographic reference.
General APA Rules:
  • Double spaced with one-inch margins on every side
  • 12 point, Time New Roman font
  • Include a page header at the top of every page (Make this by insert page numbers flush right. Next, type the title of your paper in all capital letters in the header flush left.)
  • Title Page which includes: the title, author's name, and institutional affliction 
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source: http://www.yummydocs.com/apa-title-page

Abstract:
  • Start a new page and write a summary of the key points of your paper. This should contain your topic, research questions, results, methods, conclusions, analysis, and participants. At this point, you could also add future work and implications of the research.
  • The abstract should be 150-250 words.
Reference List: Basics
  • Remember to capitalize proper nouns (names).
  • Capitalize all the words in the title of a source in the text and in the citation.
  • Italicize or underline the words of the title of longer sources.
  • Put quotes around titles of shorter sources.
Reference List: Author

Two Authors: List last names then initials (use & between authors)

Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Mood management across affective states: The hedonic contingency hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1034-1048.
Single Author: Last name, author initials

Berndt, T. J. (2002). Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 7-10.

Basic Citation Example:

Contributors' names (Last edited date). Title of resource. Retrieved 
     from http://Web address for OWL resource
I found all of this information through the Purdue Owl website and decided to research this because in one of my psychology classes I have to use APA style. While researching, I learned more about how to cite and I now understand it better. This information is important for a student in the field of social work so they understand how to cite their sources and not copy information word for word. 
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