APA 6th Reference

For James' lesson we had someone from the library to come in a teach us about APA 6th Referencing to ensure that anything we use from another source is given its own credit. Other reasons for referencing include;

Showing the research I have done
Supporting my point
Enabling follow ups on my work
get originals
good mark
avoiding plagiarism

What is Plagiarism ?

Copying and Pasting other peoples work

Use other peoples work

Not referencing properly

There are two parts of APA 6th Referencing the 'in text citations' and the 'referencing list' both need ti correspond for the referencing to have been done correctly.

'In Text Citations' are used for three things summarising , paraphrasing and quotations. The reasons for this is two directly 'quote' someones exact words or explaining someone else theory. The format for this is simple;

(Surname of the author, year of publication)

(Kessler, 2003)

(Holmes, 2016) etc.

Small quotes which are less than 40 words are signified simply by using double quotation marks. Page number, surname of author and year of publication are need to be present for the referencing to be done correctly.

When the quote is more than 40 words instead of quotation marks a page indentation is used. But it is best to avoid long quotes unless absolutely necessary.

When there is no date you simply use the letters n.d. to replace the year. (Surname of author, n.d.)

Referencing Images

The format for referencing images is slightly different below is an example

(Image number : Name of work (Artist's name, Publication date)

e.g.

Figure 1 : My Bed (Emin, 2006)

Referencing List

When compiling a reference list everything that has been used in the document as sources needs to referenced. They are all compiled by authors names in alphabetical order.

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