Go to http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/index.htm
for a detailed description of how to write a paper in American Psychological
Association (APA) format). A quick guide to reference writing is below:
References. Include citations, in APA format, for all the
sources you use.
After the text of your paper, you
should include a References section, where you list the three articles you
reviewed and any other references you cite (but NOT references you didn’t
specifically cite) in the text of your paper. References for journal
articles should be provided as follows (note that the References also
should be double-spaced):
Shackelford,
T. K., & Buss, D. M. (1996). Betrayal in mateships, friendships, and coalitions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
22, 1151-1164.
References for book chapters
should be provided as follows:
Shackelford, T. K. (1997). Perceptions of betrayal and the design of the mind. In J. A. Simpson & D. T. Kenrick
(Eds.), Evolutionary social psychology
(pp. 73-107).
References for books should
be provided as follows:
Buss, D. M. (1994). The
evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating.
Any idea
you take from another source should be credited to that source by putting the
last name or names and year of publication in parentheses after you present the
idea. Alternatively, you can credit the author by last name in the context of
the sentence. In this case, you would put the year of
publication of the source in parentheses after the author’s last name. Needless
to say, don’t plagiarize in your paper. If you are using more than three words
in the order in which they were written by the author, you must put quotes
around these words and cite the page number and source from which the phrase or
sentence was taken. Plagiarism will result in immediate failure of the paper.
As a general rule, paraphrase (use your own words) rather than quote directly. Nonetheless,
feel free
to discuss ideas with other students, but all written work should be your
own.