Sample References, page 1 Running Head: SAMPLE REFERENCES Everything I Know About APA References I Learned by Example

Writing a paper in APA style requires adherence to a number of rules and customs which seem arcane, at least when you are getting started. No doubt the most torturous and challenging of these practices, from a student's perspective, is the APA style for citations and references. This is spelled out in excruciating (yet readable) detail in the fifth edition of The APA Manual (American Psychological Association, 2001). Yet many students resist buying that manual, which presents the need for a shortened guideline to references and citations, such as this paper. The first thing a student needs to understand are some basic principles and vocabulary. A citation is contained within the text of a paper. It lists only the authors ' last names, and the year of publication. This is an example (Anderson, 1990). A reference is found at the end of a paper, in the reference section. It lists all of the additional information a reader might find useful about the source of information, such as the author's initials, the title of the article or book being cited, the name of the periodical or book that it appears in, the publisher, and so on. Every work that is cited in the text must have a corresponding reference, and the reference section should contain only works that are cited in the text. Citations are a very compact way of giving the reader the information they need about the author's sources, without overly intruding on the flow of the writing. For example, if I were usin