Human Services - South Bend-Elkhart

CITE YOUR SOURCES

 
All coursework for the human services program must be written in APA style.

Below are links to OWL, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, where you can find examples and guidance for formatting papers and creating citations for different types of materials (books, articles, webpages, etc.) in each style.  

 

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 PURDUE OWL

 OWL APA Page  
Instructions for citing books, articles, electronic sources, and more.  See the column on the left of their page for a list of citation forms for different types of materials.

APA Sample Paper. Here is a sample paper in APA style. Look it over closely and us the same formatting for your paper.

APA In-text Citations  Instructions for formatting in-text citations for short and long quotations, as well as paraphrasing and summaries.

OWL APA YouTube Playlist.  

1. The Basics
2. Reference List Basics
3. Reference Lists: a more detailed explanation
4. Complex Authors
5. Periodicals
6. Entries for Books

FORMAT A WORD DOCUMENT IN APA STYLE

1. Open Word, type apa in the search box, then press ENTER on your keyboard.

      

 

2. Select APA STYLE PAPER.

       

 

3. Double-click the top of the paper to open the header (1).  Click on SHORTEN TITLE (2) to highlight that section.

      

 

4. Press CAPS LOCK on your keyboard and enter the title of your paper.  To close the header, either double-click in the header (1) or click the CLOSE HEADER box (2).
      

 

5.  Click ADD TITLE HERE and enter the title of your paper.  The text should be typed normally, not in all capital letters.
       

 

6. Enter your name.

       

 

7. Enter the name of your college.

       

 

8. Delete everything in the document below your college name, from the title page...

       

 

9. ...to the bottom of page 8.

       

 

10. Now you have just the title page and are ready to start typing your paper.