“APA” FORMAT STYLE
Layla Al-Rajah
Introduction
• APA (American
Psychological
Association).
• Format and
Documentation of a
Research Study
• Most commonly used
to cite sources within
the social sciences.
What does APA regulate?
• APA regulates:
– Stylistics
– In-text citations
– References
(a list of all sources
used in the paper)
Manual Updates
• There have been a number of
modifications, updates, and additions to
the 5th edition of the APA Publication
Manual (© 2001).
• While most of the basic guidelines
remain unchanged, some new rules are
presented in the 6th edition (© 2010).
General Format of APA STYLE
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Double-Spaced the lines.
Standard paper 8.5 * 11 inches (A4).
One inch margin from all sides.
Use 10-12 pt.
Times New Roman font or a similar font.
Only black toner.
General Format of APA STYLE
• Pages should be numbered beginning
with the title page in the header upper
right corner.
• Reference list should begin in a separate
page at the end, under the label (
References ), No quotation marks or
underlining etc.
• Appendixes and Notes should be
formatted as references.
General Format
• Your essay should
include four major
sections:
References
Main Body
Abstract
Title page
Handling Quotation in Text
Using APA Format follow:
• Author, Date method in Citation.
(Author’s last name, Year of publication)
• In Paraphrasing an idea from other
work, make a reference to the author,
year of publication and page’s number
(although it is not required).
Handling Quotation in Text
• In Direct quoting from a work, you need
to include author, year of publication and
page’s number.
• If there is no author to the cite, such as
web page without an author, use
abbreviation version to the title page in
quoting marks.
(“Using APA”, 2001)
Handling Quotation in Text
• If you are citing to a work that has no author
nor date, then use the first few words from the
title then the abbreviation (n.d.) form (no date).
• Personal communications, emails and
pricate interviews should be referenced in
your text but NOT in references’ list.
To cite it: provide initials and last name of the
communicator, the words “personal
communication” and the exact date.
General Formatting citation in
the text
• Capitalize proper nouns, author’s name.
• If you refer to title of source :
 Capitalize all words that are four letters or greater.
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Capitalize both hyphenated compound words
Capitalize the first word after colon or dash.
Italicize the title of longer works, as books.
Put quotation marks around the title of shorter
works , as journals.
General Formatting citation in
the text
• If a work has two authors, cite both names.
• If a work has three, four or five authors, cite
them all in the first time, then the next time just
cite the first author plus (et al.)
• If a work has six or above authors, cite the
last name of the first author plus (et al.)
Short Quotations
• To indicate quotation of fewer than 40
words, enclose it with double quotation
marks “ ”.
 Provide the author, year and page.
 Provide complete reference in
references’ list.
Long quotations
• Quotation longer than 40 words,
should be in free-standing block with NO
quotation’s marks.
 Start in new line.
Leave 5 spaces from the left margin
and write the entire quotation in the
new margin.
H.W
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What's wrong with the following
documentation ?
1. When citing a work with two authors we
write
Maintained that….
(Smith et al., 2006)
2. Write the “References” on the same
“Main Body” page.