Help with APA citation style? Very confused.?
Hello!
I am writing a research paper based on an article I found on the internet. I got the article from a science magazine website (Discover). Works cited is probably the most confusing thing for me. It looks easy, but it’s not. The best APA citation style guide I could find was right here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/
And if you scroll down to where it says Nonperiodical Web Document,Web Page,or Report I have two questions;
First, what does Author, A.A, & Author B.B. Mean?
What am I supposed to put there?
And, since I got the article from a magazine’s website, am I in the right category for the citation or is there another APA citation category I’m supposed to be in?
Thank you!
Example:
Landsberger, J. (n.d.). Citing Websites. In Study Guides and Strategies. Retrieved May 13, 2005, from http://www.studygs.net/citation.htm .
General guidelines:
* General format/sequence:
Author. (Date published if available; n.d.–no date– if not). Title of article. Title of web site . Retrieved date. From URL.
* Separate items of citations with periods
* Use hanging indents following the first line
* List entries alphabetically by author, if no author list title first
See also http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html
Krushing labels: APA interview with DJ Krush
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