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A quick guide to Citing and Referencing using APA style
(revised December 2014)
When writing a piece of work you may need to refer, in your text, to material
produced by other authors. This procedure is called citing or quoting references. All ideas,
statements, opinions, conclusions, and so forth, taken from another author’s work must be
cited, whether the work is directly quoted, paraphrased or summarised.
Consistency and accuracy are important to enable the reader to identify and locate
the material that you have referred to. The referencing system adopted for citing,
acknowledging and referencing sources in all academic writing within the discipline of
Psychology in our department, including essays, projects, reports, and so on, is that
established by the American Psychological Association (APA). The British Psychological
Society has also adopted the APA format as their standard.
The material in this guide is based on the current rules and guidelines for the formal
APA system of in-text citations and entries in the reference list. These rules and guidelines
are set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
©
2009 (6th
ed.). This guide is intended to supplement, but does not replace, the APA Publication
Manual. It is a quick reference guide that contains examples of sources commonly used by
students. If your source does not appear in this guide, please ask your tutor or consult the
APA Publication Manual.
NOTE: If you are providing publication for scholarly journals you should check the
referencing format that they require.

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Some basic rules
Reference List
- Each source cited in the text must appear in the reference list. Likewise, each entry in the
reference list must be cited in your text.
- The reference section begins on a separate [new] page at the end of your essay, etc.
- The reference section is labelled References” centred on the first line, with no quotation
marks, no underlining, no italics and no bold font.
Format of reference list
- Alignment: flush left, creating uneven right margin.
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented ½ inch
(approximately 1.3 cm or five spaces) from the left margin. This is called hanging
indentation.
- Spacing: double-space throughout the references section for journal style reports (like for
the rest of the text).
- Give in italics (and do not underline): titles of periodicals/journals, periodical/journal volume
number, titles of books.
- Do not put in italics, do not underline, and do not put quotations marks around the titles of
journal articles or essays in edited collections.
- Give the journal title in full (do not use abbreviations for journal titles).
- In the reference section, capitalise only the first word of the title of an article.
- Capitalise all major words in journal titles.
- Maintain the punctuation and capitalisation used by the publisher in journal titles:
Example: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (but not Journal of Neurology,
Neurosurgery and Psychiatry).
- When referring to a work that is NOT a journal (e.g. book, article, Web page) put in capital
only the first letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a
dash in the title, and proper nouns. Do not capitalise the first letter of a second word in a
hyphenated compound word.
Authors:
- Entries in the reference list should be in alphabetical order of the last name (surname) of the
first author of each work.
- Authors are listed in the exact same order as specified in the source, using surnames first and
initials. Separate the surname and initials by a comma.
- Different authors’ names in one entry are separated by commas in the reference list.
- Separate authors’ names cited in the same parentheses in-text with semi-colons.
Example: Recent studies (Author A, 2003; Author B, 2004; Author C, 2004)…
However dates concerning the same author should be separated by commas.
Example: Several studies (Author A, 1997, 2001, 2004; Author B, 2004)…
- Use & instead of and when listing more than one author of a single work in parentheses
in your text and in the reference list.
- Conversely, use and instead of & within your text.
- If no author is given for a particular source, in place of author begin with the title of the
work. Alphabetise according to the first word of the title, disregarding the articles a, an
and the if they are the first word in the title.
Year of publication is given in parentheses following the author(s). If no publication date is identified,
use the abbreviation (n.d.) in parentheses following the author(s).

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2 A quick guide to Citing and Referencing using APA style (revised December 2014) When writing a piece of work you may need to refer, in your text, to material produced by other authors. This procedure is called citing or quoting references. All ideas, statements, opinions, conclusions, and so forth, taken from another author’s work must be cited, whether the work is directly quoted, paraphrased or summarised. Consistency and accuracy are important to enable the reader to identify and locate the material that you have referred to. The referencing system adopted for citing, acknowledging and referencing sources in all academic writing within the discipline of Psychology in our department, including essays, projects, reports, and so on, is that established by the American Psychological Association (APA). The British Psychological Society has also adopted the APA format as their standard. The material in this guide is based on the current rules and guidelines for the formal APA system of in-text citations and entries in the reference list. These rules and guidelines are set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association ©2009 (6th ed.). This guide is intended to supplement, but does not replace, the APA Publication Manual. It is a quick reference guide that contains examples of sources commonly used by students. If your source does not appear in this guide, please ask your tutor or consult the APA Publication Manual. NOTE: If you are providing publi ...
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