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APA referencing in a nutshell
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in your textAPA citations are in author-date format (Hickey, 2011, p. 177). Works can also be cited as Silvia (2008, p. 59), or you can cite Nakahara (2010) as your source (p. 145). For repeat citations, you can refer to Hickey again (p. 62) without the year if the author's name is repeated outside of parentheses in the same paragraph.
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at the end of your documentProvide a bibliography listing all the works cited in your text, with full references, in author-date format and in A-Z order. The APA style specifies that the reference list should be labelled 'references' (in bold capitals) and the entries should be double-spaced with a 0.5 inch hanging indent:Barrett, S. (1997, April 2). Ten ways to avoid being quacked. Quackwatch. https://quackwatch.org/related/avoid
Hickey, M. A. (2011). Get real: Reality and mystery. University Press of America.
Nakahara, T. (2010). Making up monsters: Set and costume design in horror films. In I. Conrich (Ed.), Horror zone: The cultural experience of contemporary horror cinema (pp. 139–152). I.B. Tauris.
Silvia, P. J. (2008). Interest: The curious emotion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(1), 57–60.The examples above are for a web page, a book, a chapter in a book, and a journal article.
Citation Studio follows the rules specified in the APA Publication Manual, the official guide for the APA style.