Basic Academic Reference How To

Where did your information come from?
A guide to basic references for academic writing
Becka Barker, Instructor
SCH School of Global Education and Exchange
Honors Summer Program

Are you writing about…
…a historical event?
…something in the news?
…something that is a reported fact?
…something that did not completely come from your own imagination?

…then you MUST tell readers where your information came from.
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a popular guide for listing information sources.

Here is the latest APA method for listing the most popular information sources, such as
websites,
news articles, and
Books.

for websites:
URL
Name of website
Date (when you saw it)
Internet Movie Database. Retrieved July
14, 2009, from http://www.imdb.com/
title/tt0330373/

For news articles:
Name of Newspaper
Volume/Number
Page number
Date
Name of article
Date
Author
Genn, A. (2003, August 24) Director takes
leading role in women’s entertainment
group. Long Island Business News, p. 2

For books:
Name of Book
When published
Publisher name and city
Publisher name and city
Author
Fox, J. (2009). The Myth of the rational
market. New York: Harper Collins
Publishers.

Where do you list these books, websites, and news articles?

On a separate page after your essay, list your sources in alphabetical order (by author).

If you use any exact phrases or sentences in your essay from these sources, be sure to do the following:
List the author’s name, year, and page number where you found the original words.
Use quotation marks!
“ ”

It is important to do this to show respect to authors and scholars who came before you.
Aristotle
Confucius
your essay
you
Albert
Einstein

If you DON’T do this, you are being dishonest. In Western universities, students are EXPELLED for stealing other peoples’ ideas.
your essay
you

If you DON’T do this, you are being dishonest. In Western universities, students are EXPELLED for stealing other peoples’ ideas.
GOOD references = a STRONG essay
NO references = possible FAIL

Good luck and happy writing!

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