Summary: An Easyguide To APA Style

You would no doubt hand out citations as a rookie police officer, however, as a graduate student writing papers, you don’t want your APA citations to reveal your rookie nature. I do welcome the validation from Schwartz, Landrum, & Gurung (2017) that APA style can have many challenges, and rookie mistakes do happen. For someone that has had no background with writing APA style, the easy manner in which to read An Easyguide to APA Style is appreciated. I only wish I had a photographic memory that could easily refer to all the rules that I’ve read. Since a photographic memory is not part of my brain structure, it’s best for me to remember that I am here to learn and as I tell my own children-to practice hard and try my very best. So, as we

We must remember the author and publication date, and we are reminded that we should not include the author’s first name or even the initial in the in-text citation (Schwartz et al., 2017). To the novice, that may not make sense. But if are practicing away our rookie nature, we will need to remember to keep those first names out of the parenthesis when we cite in-text. A proper in-text citation if I wrote a book under my maiden name, would look like this: (Remick, 1993). Let’s say my mother in law, Joyce DiProsper, and I wrote a scholarly book together and it needed to be cited in-text. For this example, you’d want to create a citation that looks like this: (DiProsper & Remick, 1994). Let’s have some real fun here and say that my mother, Paula Hand, decided to jump on board the literary trail with both me and Joyce. That imaginary yet intriguing in-text citation of three authors, would

Full disclosure, I have no idea what my mother in law’s middle name is, but for the purpose of this paper I will pretend her middle name is Grace, because wouldn’t that be a nice? So, the in-text citation would look like this: (J.G. DiProsper, 2015; M.R. DiProsper, 2016). If one wanted to cite our research separately in their paper the in-text citations, Schwartz et al., (2017) have guidelines for the next steps and share the example would look like this: Research conducted from J.G. DiProsper reveals that sharing your unwelcome opinion regarding your son and daughter in law welcoming foster children into their home, won’t necessarily keep those foster children out (2015). Research conducted through life experiences by M.R. DiProsper (2016) reveals that it’s best to not take the advice of in laws that show their distain regarding adopting children through the foster care