REFERENCE SHEET FORMAT

APA Style

 

            Book

 

                        Portner, H. (1998).  Mentoring New Teachers.  Corwin Press, Inc.

 

            Magazine

 

Lively, B., Barnett, C., Berger, B., Greer, M., & Holiday, M. (1992).  Mentoring of faculty.  Summary and bibliographic report.  American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 56, 82-83.

 

            Eric

 

Koki, S. (1997).  The role of teacher mentoring in educational reform.  PREL Briefing Paper.  (ERIC Reproduction Center, ED420647)

 

 

            Internet

 

Brown, B. L. (1999, March 25).  Tech prep:  Is it working?  [On-line].  Available:  http://www.128.146.177.66/newseric/docs/mr00014.htm

 

            Daily newspaper article, no author

 

New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart failure.  (1993, July 15).  The Washington Post, p. A12.

 

 

Ø      The basic idea behind writing bibliographical references is not only efficiency, but completeness.  Note what is capitalized, where the periods are, and what is underlined!!!!

Ø      AS A RULE OF THUMB, THE FOLLOWING IS USUIAL PRACTICE IN REPORT WRITING:

 

MARGINS:  At least 1 ½  inches on the left, minimum 1 inch on other edges.

 

PAGINATION:  In the upper right hand corner of each page of the text.

 

REFERENCES:  Found in a list at the end of the text…only references cited in

                the text are in this list.

 

COMPUTER USE: Be sure your printer copies the image so it can be easily read.  Eliminate the “justify” option for course papers.  Separate pages and staple papers together for submission.

Ø     A.P.A. allow you to write references in text with efficiency and in a way that allows your writing to flow within text.  An example of this is as follows:

 

     Improving the job satisfaction of already-employed nurses seems to be the key to attracting new individuals to the profession (Sanford, 1988).  A study by Kramer (1969) indicated that job satisfaction….

 

 

Ø     Quotations, once thought to be most acceptable, should now be used, sparingly, in formal writing.  Only when an impact is needed, or in changing the quote, you would change the intended idea, should a quote be used.  When writing, it is referenced as such:

 

     “There is a need for health care organizations to discover…the most efficient manner” (American Nurses’ Association, 1984, p. 8).

 

                                      OR

 

     As stated by the American Nurses’ Association (1984), “there is a need for health care…efficient manner” (p. 8).

 

Ø     In any case, for a quote, there MUST BE A PAGE NUMBER!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources:  Theobald, M.  Writing for Methods of Research.  Southeast

               Missouri State University.

 

               Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

               Fourth Edition. (1995).  Washington, DC:  American Psychological

              Association