REA 373: The Teaching of Reading

APA Style Citation Information

from Purdue Online Writing Lab (aka the OWL)

General APA Format

• In-Text Citation: The Basics
• In-Text Citation: Author/Authors
• Footnotes & Endnotes

Reference List: Basic Rules

• Reference List: Author/Authors
• Reference List: Articles in Periodicals
• Reference List: Books
• Reference List: Other Print Sources
• Reference List: Electronic Resources
• Reference List: Other Non-Print Sources
• Additional Resources for using APA Style Citations

In-Text Citation

• Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.
• If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
• When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
• Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: "Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock's Vertigo."
• If the title of the work is italicized in your reference list, italicize it and use title case capitalization in the text: The Closing of the American Mind; The Wizard of Oz; Friends.
• If the title of the work is not italicized in your reference list, use double quotation marks and title case capitalization (even though the reference list uses sentence case): "Multimedia Narration: Constructing Possible Worlds;" "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry."

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