APA Citation Style

For your assignment, you will be using APA Citation Style; here are a few resources to help you out:

• Hacker D. (2006). Bedford Handbook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.
  
  • PE1408 .H277 2006 in the Reference Collection

• Research & Documentation Online's APA Section -- written by the same author as the Bedford Handbook.
• American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
  -- Definitive official source
  
  • BF76.7 .P83 2001 in the Reference Collection
• Reeves Selected Websites by Subject for APA citation styles.

Here are a few quick tips to help you out with APA style in your reference list:

• In the reference list, always abbreviate the author's first name to just the first initial.
  
  • e.g. Noam Chomsky would be listed as Chomsky N.
• Only capitalize the first letter in the first word of a title of a book or journal article (capitalize all of the words as you normally would for the title of a journal)
  
  • e.g. Syntactic structures, but Journal of the American Psychological Association.
• Date usually comes after the author and before the title -- it's enclosed in parenthesis.
  
  • e.g. Chomsky N. (1957). Syntactic structures.