KEY RULE
Get all information pertaining to the
Citing it Right
technical learning session on
academic writing (6)
What manual are you using?
Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)
Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (APA)
The ILS will be using APA in the Philippine
Labor Review.
APA basics: quotation
According to Jones (1998), Students often
had difficulty using APA style, especially
when it was their first time (p. 199).
She stated, "Students often had difficulty
using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but
she did not offer an explanation as to why.
Quotations with more than 40 words are
set off, with a new, inner margin.
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source:
author: individual or agency
year of publication (detailed if a periodical)
title of book, article, series, volume, edition
place of publication or where it can be found
publisher
APA basics
author-date in-text citation
e.g., (Ofreneo, 2013)
page number needed if quoting material
title of articles are put in quotation marks,
books and names of journals and other
publications are set in italics
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APA basics: authors
(last name, year)
(last name & last name, year)
(last name, last name, & last name, year)
up to five authors
(last name et al., year) six or more
(last name, year; last name, year)
e.g., (Jose, 2013; Santos, 2012)
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Org as author use the name of the org Personal communication

e.g., (Institute for Labor Studies [ILS], 2013) e.g., (E. Robbins, personal communication,
then (ILS, 2013) January 4, 2001)
More than one work in a year Cite online materials like other print
e.g., (Ofreneo, 2012a) . . . (Ofreneo, 2012b) materials
Indirect sources Sources without page numbers use
Johnson argued that...(as cited in Smith, 2003, p. 102). section/heading, para. #

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APA basics: others Further information/guides

footnotes and endnotes: for additional See Purdue Online Writing Lab, specifically the APA
information (content) or copyright info Style tab.

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