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APA Guide: One Author-Journal

Guidelines

References: An entry that appears at the end of your paper.

Author Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Article title: Subtitle. Journal Title, Volume(issue), page range.


In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): An entry that appears in the body of your paper when you express the ideas of a researcher or author using your own words.  For more tips on paraphrasing check out The OWL at Purdue.

(Author Last Name, Year).

In-Text Citation (Quotation): An entry that appears in the body of your paper after a direct quote.

(Author Last Name, Year, page number).

     
 
 
 
      

Examples

References:

Pettigrew, T. F. (2009). Secondary transfer effect of contact: Do intergroup contact effects spread to noncontacted outgroups?. Social Psychology, 40(2), 55-65. 


In-Text Citation (Paraphrase): 

Pettigrew (2009) states

(Pettigrew, 2009).


In-Text Citation (Quotation):

(Pettigrew, 2009, p. 61).


 Additional information:

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Ed., page 198.

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