NURS 210– APA Citation

Wenli Gao

Instructional Services Librarian

MSC Butcher Library

Ways to get help

• Ask at reference desk, 1st floor • Chat with us during library hours (Our IM name

is: MorrisvilleLib )• Call us at 684-6055• Email a question: reference@morrisville.edu

APA basics

• What is APA?

--American Psychological Association• Who uses it?

-- Health sciences, Social sciences,

Business, and more • Why use it?

--Organize your writing

--Help you cite

--More professional

Four major sections

• Title page• Abstract -- does not required for your assignment• Main body -- include in-text citation • References

APA Citation

Things that are considered “common knowledge” do not need to be cited.

Asthma rates in Canada have increased from 6.5 to 8.4 percent in 2001.

Asthma affects many children in Canada.

What you must cite?

Direct quotations

From Information & Research Instruction Suite, Clark College, Cannell Library

What you must cite?

Paraphrases & Summary Statements

From NoteTaking at Unilearning, University of Wollogong, Australia

What you must cite?

Arguable Assertions Arguable Assertions

(Statements that sound like an author’s opinion or an assertion that is not backed up by data – a debatable point.)

From Information & Research Instruction Suite, Clark College, Cannell Library

(Page number)

(Nutt, King, Saulsbury , & Blakemore , 2007)

(Apparelyzed , n.d.)

What you must cite?

Statistics,Statistics, ChartsCharts,,

GraphsGraphs,,

PhotographsPhotographs

(Disabled World, 2007)

(Bourke-White, 1937)

APA Reference Formats Journal Articles from a Library Database

APA Reference Formats Journal Articles from a Library Database

Article without a DOI

Pozehl, B., Duncan, K., & Hertzog, M. (2008). The effects of authors date

exercise training on fatigue and dyspnea in heart failure. article title

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 7(2), 127-132.

journal title volume (issue) pg. no.s

Retrieved from CINAHL Plus with Full Text database.database name

APA Reference Formats Technical or Research Report from a Web Site

Kutner, M., Greenberg, E., Jin, Y., & Paulsen, C. (2006).

authors date

The health literacy of America’s adults: Results report title

from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (Report No. NCES 2006-483). Retrieved from National agency report identification agency name

Center of Education Statistics website: http://nces.ed.gov/ full url location of

document

pubs2005/s006483.pdf

Exercise

• One article from library database with DOI• One article from library database without DOI• One online document

Google Your Guide to Living Well with Heart Disease

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/other/your_guide/living_well.pdf