Basic Citation in APA Format: Journal, Database, or Encyclopedia Article

The importance of giving credit to sources and using APA format for citing journal articles, database entries, or encyclopedia articles to acknowledge creators of information.

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1. Putting the Pieces Together Basic Citation in APA format: Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article

2. Research for Academic Purposes The basis of research is to READ and make notes: paraphrase or quotations. You are learning new information or you are confirming information that is NOT general knowledge. Since you are learning new things, when you report them to the teacher or the class, you need to give credit to the creator of the information -- the author or photographer, or videographer, or designer, or... If you don't give credit, it is

3. Why use APA? In Science, Phys. Ed., and the Social Sciences, we use the American Psychological Association s method of cataloguing our research sources. You must give credit to ALL facts, ideas and images that you did not create on your own. Yup, ALL FACTS, IDEAS AND IMAGES. You must give credit to your research in two places: On a References page As an embedded (in-text) citation

4. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Author, A. A. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number (issue number if available). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/ Embedded (in-text) citation: (Last name, year).

5. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today, 144 (2). Retrieved from http://www.ddsb.ca/school/henrystreeths/Learning %20Commons/Pages/default.aspx Embedded (in-text) citation: (Maxwell, 2014).

6. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G.

7. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014).

8. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials.

9. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today,

10. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today, 144

11. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today, 144 (2).

12. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today, 144 (2). Retrieved from http://www.ddsb.ca/school/henrystreeths/Learning %20Commons/Pages/default.aspx

13. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article Embedded (in-text) citation: Technology is offering more opportunities than ever: Students of today are more comfortable with the digital than the print, however they have poor skills when it comes to organization and logic (Maxwell,

14. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article Embedded (in-text) citation: Technology is offering more opportunities than ever: Students of today are more comfortable with the digital than the print, however they have poor skills when it comes to organization and logic (Maxwell, 2014).

15. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article Embedded (in-text) citation: Quotation and Paraphrase Technology is offering more opportunities than ever: Students of today are more comfortable with the digital than the print, however they have poor skills when it comes to organization and logic (Maxwell, 2014). While students have considerable digital skills, they lack skills in higher order thinking and these skills must be taught in school (Maxwell, 2014).

16. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today, 144 (2). Retrieved from http://www.ddsb.ca/school/henrystreeths/Learning %20Commons/Pages/default.aspx Embedded (in-text) citation: (Maxwell, 2014).

17. Journal, Database or Encyclopedia Article with No Author References: Maxwell, G. (2014). Research for Millennials. Education Today, 144 (2). Retrieved from http://www.ddsb.ca/school/henrystreeths/Learning%20Commons/Pages/default.aspx Embedded (in-text) citation: (Maxwell, 2014). References: Title. (year). Retrieved from URL How Books have Disappointed Me. (2014) Retrieved from http://www.ddsb.ca/school/henrystreeths/Learning%20Commons/hawk_blog/default.aspx Embedded (in-text) citation: ("Title," year, para. #). ( How Books have Disappointed Me, 2014, para. 25)