On Using References and APA Style

In Your Grade Replacement Paper

Dr. Blankenship

  You are to include at least two references that support your analysis of your character(s).  One of those references will undoubtedly be your textbook.  The other reference should be a journal article that you identified on PsycINFO, through Cline Library.  You are to use APA format in your citations and in listing your references.  Your paper must be printed (12 point Times New Roman font) and double-spaced.

  APA format is very simple.  Your textbook uses that format and you will notice that when a book or article is referred to the authors put the date of the article in parentheses after the name(s) of the person(s) cited.  On pages 267 and 268 of our text are the following statements that illustrate the way to cite:  

As Loevinger (1976) put it, the main rule is “Don't get caught.”

Fitting this, there’s evidence that women who reach the conscientious stage by middle age also increase in the qualities of achievement via independence and tolerance during that period (Helson & Roberts, 1994).

The first example shows that when the name of the author quoted or paraphrased is used in the sentence, just the date of the article or book goes after the author's name.  The second example shows that when the authors are not referred to in the sentence but their article or book is the source of the information; their names and the date of the publication are in parentheses following the sentence.

In addition to putting the names and/or dates of persons cited in the text of your paper, you must list at the end of your paper the full citations for those publications.  (See pages 521-587 of the Carver and Scheier textbook.)

On your reference page, the citation to a journal article will take the general form:

Author (Date).  Name of article.  Journal name, Volume number, pages of the article.

For example, the reference to Helson and Roberts is taken from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology  and would be listed on your reference page, at the end of your paper, in the following way:

Helson, R., & Roberts, B. W.  (1994).  Ego development and personality change in adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 911-920.

References to books take the general form:

Author (Date).  Book title.  Place of publication:  Publisher.

The reference to Loevinger (above) is to a book and it would be listed the following way:

Loevinger, J.  (1976).  Ego development: Conceptions and theories.  San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.

REMEMBER TO REFERENCE THE TEXTBOOK.  

ABSOLUTELY NO MATERIAL FROM THE INTERNET CAN BE INCLUDED IN THIS PAPER.  SEE THE HANDOUT ON THE GRADE REPLACEMENT PAPER FOR OTHER REQUIREMENTS.

Double-space your entire paper, including the reference section.