1. APA
Style:
A
Brief
Introduc4on
Lin
Wu
Associate
Professor
&
Embedded
Librarian
UTHSC
Library

2. What
is
the
APA
cita4on
style?
² Guidelines
to
write
scholarly
papers
and
established
by
the
American
Psychological
Associa4on.
² Publica=on
Manual
of
the
American
Psychological
Associa=on,
6th
Edi=on.
Copies
are
available
at
both
Permanent
Reserves
&
Reference
Collec4on
(Call
number:
WZ
345
P976
2010)
You
don’t
have
to
remember
all
of
the
rules,
but
you
do
need
to
understand
the
essen4als!

3. Why
do
we
cite
sources?
² Avoid
plagiarism
² Give
credits
to
others
² Provide
readers
reliable
ways
to
locate
sources
² Establish
scholarly
credits
for
ourselves
It’s
all
about
scholarly
wri4ng!

4. When
do
we
cite
sources?
² Exact
quota4ons
² Others’
ideas/theories/research
–
“berry
picking”
or
paraphrasing
² Anything
that
influences
our
work
and
that
we
used
to
build
our
work
Credi4ng
sources!

5. Ci4ng:
A
two-­‐part
process
² In
text
§ In
the
body
of
a
paper
² Reference
list
§ At
the
end
of
the
paper
Most
in-­‐text
cita4ons
should
have
a
corresponding
entry
in
the
references
list

6. Does
APA
use
ibid.?
No.
APA
never
uses
ibid
to
refer
again
to
the
last
source
previously
referenced;
instead
give
each
cita4on
using
author
names
as
usual.
Source:
hdp://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/05/its-­‐all-­‐la4n-­‐to-­‐me.html

7. When
to
use
page
numbers
in
the
body
of
a
paper?
²
Direct
quote
from
a
source
²
A
specific
part
of
a
source
²
Paraphrasing
or
referring
to
an
idea
(encourage
to
provide
page
number)

8. What’s
the
difference
between
DOI
and
URL?
²
DOI
stands
for
Digital
Object
Iden4fier
²
to
iden4fy
an
ar4cle
and
link
to
it
Example:
10.1001/jama.2011.1913
²
URL
stands
for
Uniform
Resource
Locator
²
to
map
digital
informa4on
on
the
Internet
Example:
hdp://libguides.uthsc.edu/nsg510
Domain/Host
Protocol
name
File
name

9. Where
to
get
help?
Ask
the
Embedded
Librarian
(901)
448
1667
lwu5@uthsc.edu