This document provides information about APA citation style including definitions of plagiarism, general elements of citations, and examples of citing different source types such as books, journal articles from databases, websites, and variations. It defines plagiarism as submitting another's work as one's own without citation or paraphrasing another's work too closely without quotation marks. The general elements of an APA citation include author, date, title, and publisher/retrieval data. In-text citations include the author's last name and date in parentheses and the reference page lists full citations alphabetically by author.

1. APA Style
c APA Citation Format

2. Plagiarism (from Student
Handbook)
1. Submitting a term paper, examination or other work
written by someone else. This is a flagrant instance of
plagiarism.
2. Failure to give credit in a footnote for ideas, statements
of facts or conclusions derived by another.
3. Failure to use quotation marks when quoting directly
from another person, whether it is a paragraph, a
sentence or even a part thereof.
4. Close and extended paraphrasing of another.

3. General Elements
Reference
Author. (Date). Title of work.
Publisher/Retrieval data.
In Text
(Author’s Last Names, Publication Year)

4. Book
Reference Page
Schroeder, A. (2008). The snowball: Warren Buffett
and the business of life.
New York, NY: Bantam Books.
In Text Citation
(Schroeder, 2008) OR According to Schroeder
(2008)….

5. Journal from a database
Reference Page
Goolsbee, A. & Syverson, C. (2008, November). How do
incumbents respond to the
threat of entry? Evidence from the major airlines. The
Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 123, 1611-1633. Retrieved from:
http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/
In Text Citation
(Goolsbee & Syverson, 2008) OR According to Goolsbee and
Syverson (2008)….

6. Website
Reference Page
Humana. (2013). Humana on health care reform.
Retrieved from
https://www.humana.com/about/public-policy/humana-
on-the-issues/healthcare-
reform
In Text Citation
(Humana, 2013) OR Humana’s (2008) website….

7. Variations
•No author = start citation with
title
•No date = (n.d.)
•Multiple authors
•Quotations and in text citations
(author, date, p., pp. or
para. #)
•DOI number