Free: A Guide to APA Citation

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"A Learning Booklet – A Guide to APA Citation" is a brief instruction booklet about how to use APA style citation. This handy guide covers important rules for using APA citation style such as rules for in-text citation, rules for citing works by well-known organizations, rules for citing electronic sources, rules forciting short and long quotations, and more. In addition, this learning booklet explains the basics of APA citation style formatting, including a look at how to properly cite books, journals, footnotes, endnotes etc. A brief discussion on copyright permission notes concludes the booklet’s coverage of APA style citation.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• APA Citation Basics
• Signal Phrases
• Formatting
• Capitalization
• Highlighting
• Titles
• Various In-Text Citations
• Two Authors
• More than Two Authors
• Authors who Share a Last Name
• No Known Author
• Multiple Works within one
• Parenthetical Organizations and their Abbreviations
• Personal Communications
• Indirect Secondary Sources
• Electronic Sources
• Quotations Citing
• Brief Quotations
• Long Quotations
• Paraphrasing
• The Reference List Formatting
• Your References
• Basic Rules
• Book References and Chapter References
• Electronic References
• Journals, Magazines and other Short-Form Publications
• Conference Citations
• Footnotes and Endnotes
• Copyright Permission Notes

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