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Understanding APA Style: Citation Accuracy and Formatting Tips

Familiarity with APA Style is crucial for academic writing, especially in the field of Criminal Justice. This guide emphasizes the importance of accuracy in citation generation, highlighting that automated tools may not always provide correct citations. Learn the essential rules, such as proper formatting, author identification, and the significance of DOI numbers. Additionally, discover the key differences between DOIs and other identification numbers, and find out how to handle articles without DOIs. Utilize this knowledge to enhance your academic writing skills.

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Understanding APA Style: Citation Accuracy and Formatting Tips

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  1. Power HourAPA Style September 29, 2011

  2. Important to be familiar with APA Style Citation generators and suggested citations are not always correct. You need to be able to identify errors.

  3. Criminal Justice Abstracts

  4. Criminal Justice Abstracts

  5. Academic Search Premier

  6. Academic Search Premier

  7. From the “Closed Web”

  8. APA Rules • Begin at the left margin • Double space between lines and within citations • If you need more than one line, indent the second and subsequent lines

  9. Begin with Author Statement Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E.

  10. Add Date of Publication Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2008). (include days and months for articles from newspapers or magazines only)

  11. Add Title of Article Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2008). Peer victimization among schoolchildren: Correlations, causes, con- sequences, and considerations in assessment and intervention. (capitalize first letter of first word in main title and any subtitles, as well as proper nouns)

  12. Add Journal Title and Volume Number Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2008). Peer victimization among schoolchildren: Correlations, causes, con- sequences, and considerations in assessment and intervention.School Psychology Quarterly, 23 (all in italics)

  13. Add Page number(s) Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2008). Peer victimization among schoolchildren: Correlations, causes, con- sequences, and considerations in assessment and intervention.School Psychology Quarterly, 23, 451-461.

  14. Add doi number (if available) Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2008). Peer victimization among schoolchildren: Correlations, causes, con- sequences, and considerations in assessment and intervention.School Psychology Quarterly, 23, 451-461. doi:10.1037/a0012769

  15. What is a doi number? • Stands for Digital Object Identifier. • “…is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency … to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the internet” (APA, 2010, p. 189). • Usually located near the top of page one of an article and on the longer view of the database entry.

  16. More About the doi. • Don’t confuse the DOI with an ISSN number or an accession number. If you do not see the letters doi before a number, it is not a doi number. • If an article does not have a DOI, then use the URL for the periodical’s home page.

  17. For Articles without a doi Kelly, S. (2008). What types of students efforts are rewarded with high marks? Sociology of Education, 81, 32-52. Retrieved from http://www.asanet.org/ cs/journals/soe

  18. From the “Open Web”

  19. Date available at the bottom of the page—August 24, 2010

  20. Mayo Clinic. (2010, August 24). Bullying: Help your child handle a school bully. Children’s Health. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic. com/health/bullying/MH00126

  21. Parenthetical Documentation

  22. Authors not named in the text.

  23. Authors named in the text.

  24. For Help • Contact the Writing Center. • Contact the Hanley Library. • Contact your professor.

  25. “Practice makes perfect!”

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