APA DOCUMENTATION GUIDE
SETTING UP RESEARCH PAPERS 2020 EDITION
Based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.)
COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, LAMBTON COLLEGE
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Did you
Rewrite the passage using different sentence structure and vocabulary?
Use the author’s name and credentials in the lead-in to the passage?
Cut out repeated sections, but include all key ideas?
Review the paraphrase or summary to make sure it has the same meaning as the
original?
Follow the guidelines in Chapters 4 and 5?
Pictures, Illustrations, Maps, and Charts
Did you
Label each picture, illustration, map, or chart (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)?
Provide a caption that briefly describes each picture, illustration, map, or chart?
Provide a parenthetical reference after the caption for each picture, illustration, map or
chart?
APPENDIX D
Checklist for References Page
Do not list any publication in your reference list that you do not cite.
,Did you
Use a separate page?
Title the section References, center and bold with no underline?
Put the entries in alphabetical order?
Double space with no extra lines between the entries?
Use indentation properly?
Start with the authors’ surnames followed by all initials?
Use a comma to separate surnames and their initials and to separate authors’ names?
Use an ampersand (&) before the last author if there are two or more?
Start with the title followed by the date of publication if there is no author?
Place the date (in parentheses) as the second item?
Put the date in the right order (year, month day)?
Write out the names of the month in full (no abbreviations)?
Use n.d. in parentheses if there is no date?
Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns for titles and subtitles of everything but
periodicals?
Shorten the publisher’s name to key words?
End each entry with a period unless the final part of the entry is a Digital Object
Identifier (DOI) or internet address (URL)?
Add a DOI or URL for items retrieved from the internet?
Add a retrieval date (Month day, year) for electronic items likely to change (wikis)?
Follow the guidelines in Chapter 9?
,Copyright © 2020 Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario
Student paper courtesy of Ramanvir K. Deol
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Why Document? 1
1 Plagiarism 2
Self-Plagiarism 2
Examples of Plagiarism 3 2 Conducting Research 4
A Note on Sources 4
3 Borrowing Information 5
Quoting 5
Examples 6
Short Quotation (fewer than 40 words) 6
Block Quotation (40 words or more) 6
Indirect Quotation 7
Quotation Marks Within a Quotation 7
4 Paraphrasing 8
Tips for Paraphrasing 8
Sample Paraphrase 8
Sample Indirect Paraphrase 8
5 Summarizing 9
Tips for Summarizing 9
Sample Informal Summary 10
Sample Formal Summary 10
6 Documentation 11
What Must Be Documented 11
7 Footnotes 12 8 Parenthetical References (In-Text Citations) 13
Examples 13
One Author, One Work 13
Two (or More) Works by the Same Author Within the Same Year 14
Multiple Authors, One Work 14
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SETTING UP RESEARCH PAPERS 2020 EDITION
Based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.)
COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, LAMBTON COLLEGE
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Did you
Rewrite the passage using different sentence structure and vocabulary?
Use the author’s name and credentials in the lead-in to the passage?
Cut out repeated sections, but include all key ideas?
Review the paraphrase or summary to make sure it has the same meaning as the
original?
Follow the guidelines in Chapters 4 and 5?
Pictures, Illustrations, Maps, and Charts
Did you
Label each picture, illustration, map, or chart (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)?
Provide a caption that briefly describes each picture, illustration, map, or chart?
Provide a parenthetical reference after the caption for each picture, illustration, map or
chart?
APPENDIX D
Checklist for References Page
Do not list any publication in your reference list that you do not cite.
,Did you
Use a separate page?
Title the section References, center and bold with no underline?
Put the entries in alphabetical order?
Double space with no extra lines between the entries?
Use indentation properly?
Start with the authors’ surnames followed by all initials?
Use a comma to separate surnames and their initials and to separate authors’ names?
Use an ampersand (&) before the last author if there are two or more?
Start with the title followed by the date of publication if there is no author?
Place the date (in parentheses) as the second item?
Put the date in the right order (year, month day)?
Write out the names of the month in full (no abbreviations)?
Use n.d. in parentheses if there is no date?
Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns for titles and subtitles of everything but
periodicals?
Shorten the publisher’s name to key words?
End each entry with a period unless the final part of the entry is a Digital Object
Identifier (DOI) or internet address (URL)?
Add a DOI or URL for items retrieved from the internet?
Add a retrieval date (Month day, year) for electronic items likely to change (wikis)?
Follow the guidelines in Chapter 9?
,Copyright © 2020 Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario
Student paper courtesy of Ramanvir K. Deol
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Why Document? 1
1 Plagiarism 2
Self-Plagiarism 2
Examples of Plagiarism 3 2 Conducting Research 4
A Note on Sources 4
3 Borrowing Information 5
Quoting 5
Examples 6
Short Quotation (fewer than 40 words) 6
Block Quotation (40 words or more) 6
Indirect Quotation 7
Quotation Marks Within a Quotation 7
4 Paraphrasing 8
Tips for Paraphrasing 8
Sample Paraphrase 8
Sample Indirect Paraphrase 8
5 Summarizing 9
Tips for Summarizing 9
Sample Informal Summary 10
Sample Formal Summary 10
6 Documentation 11
What Must Be Documented 11
7 Footnotes 12 8 Parenthetical References (In-Text Citations) 13
Examples 13
One Author, One Work 13
Two (or More) Works by the Same Author Within the Same Year 14
Multiple Authors, One Work 14
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