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Reference Style and Format
- References should be styled as APA Citation Style Guide (6th Ed.), with correct punctuation:
- Journal Articles
LastName, FirstInitial. (Year). Article Title. Journal Title, Volume(issue), PageNumberSpan. doi: DOI. Example: Grundy, J., & Hosking, J. (2002). Developing adaptable user interfaces for component-based systems. Interacting with Computers, 14(3), 175-175-194. doi: 10.1016/s0953-5438(01)00049-2
- Books
LastName, FirstInitial. (Year). Book Title. Place: Publisher. Example: Stephanidis, C. (2001). User interfaces for all: concepts, methods, and tools. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
- Book sections or chapters
LastName, FirstInitial. (Year). Title of chapter. In EditorFirstInitial EditorLastName (Ed.), Title of book (PageNumberSpan). Place: Publisher. Example: Akoumianakis, D., Grammenos, D., & Stephanidis, C. (2001). User interface adaptation: Evaluation perspectives. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), User interfaces for all: Concepts, methods, and tools (pp. 339-352). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
- Conference papers or presentations
LastName, FirstInitial. (Year). Presentation Title. Paper presented at Presentation Title, city, state/country. Example: Stuerzlinger, W., Chapuis, O., Phillips, D., & Roussel, N. (2006). User interface facades: towards fully adaptable user interfaces. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Montreux, Switzerland.
- Websites
Often one of these pieces of information is missing. Take a look at this handy chart (PDF) from the APA for help in figuring out what to do in those situations. LastName, FirstInitial. (Year, Month Date). Title of Document [format]. Retrieved from URL, Example: Lee, C. (2010, November 18). How to cite something you found on a website in APA style [blog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/11/how-to-cite-something-you-found-on-a-website-in-apa-style.html