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APA Style:

What are you required to include in order for your work to be fully cited?

What kind information do you need to cite?

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APA Style: A Review

Includes all the rules for citing information and formatting an essay/academic papers
For your IB assessments, you are not required to use APA citations, however it is helpful to focus on one kind of citation style.

Most other styles of citation (MLA, Chicago, etc.) are basically the same, just with minor formatting differences.

APA Style Scavenger Hunt

Let’s start with the basics.

APA Style Scavenger Hunt

Now for more basics

APA Style Scavenger Hunt

Now let’s ramp it up a little.

Go to the site linked above and use the menu on the left to navigate to the specific page you need for the type of source (video, article, encyclopedia, etc.) you are citing and/or the type of citation (in-text or reference) that you are writing
Use the website to write proper reference page citations for the following sources. (Type the citations into PearDeck)

How did you do?

Source 1:

Encyclopedia Britannica. (n.d.). Superpower. In Britannica.com.

Source 2:

Foreign Policy Association. (2016, February 22). Joseph Nye - On Soft Power

Source 3:

Wu, K.J. (2021, January 19). Could a Smell Test Screen People for Covid?. The New York Times.

Final Tips:

Since double checking is so necessary, I personally find it easier to just go off of the Purdue OWL website to begin with.