APA Referencing

APA 6th Referencing

Why reference?
-   To show the research you have done and what you have read
To show you can support you points
To enable the readers to follow up and reads the original text
To get a good mark
To avoid plagiarism (theft of somebody else's work)

You have to reference quotes, statistics, dictionary definitions, pictures and diagrams from websites and textbooks, rewording sources.

APA referencing is a two part system in-text citations and a reference list.

In text citation - (Smith, 1991). If you cant find the date add N.D.
No URLs in the essay

APA book reference Builder helps you create the references

Referencing images
In text citation           Figure 1: title (name, Year)
In the reference list you would get the full details

Quotes less than 40 words
Double quotation marks for quotes
Page number if from book or article

Quotes more than 40 words you indent the quotes
Don't need quotation marks because you have indented