{"id":2644,"date":"2015-03-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/?post_type=essay-writing-blog&#038;p=2644"},"modified":"2018-04-08T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T16:06:12","slug":"apa-citation-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/apa-citation-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"APA Citation Made Simple (Infographic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have spent any amount of time&nbsp;writing papers for your university social sciences courses, you have probably had to learn a thing or two about APA citation.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular opinion, <em>APA<\/em> does NOT stand for <em>A Pain in the A**<\/em>. Though it may seem so.<\/p>\n<p>Rather,&nbsp;<em>APA<\/em> stands for American Psychological Association. This group represents the largest professional organization&nbsp;of psychologists in North America with 137,000 members (or so says <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Psychological_Association\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As a publisher of a multitude of scientific journals, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apastyle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">APA&nbsp;has developed a style guide<\/a> that is used by researchers, academics, students, and publishers in the social sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Since you&#8217;re reading this blog post, someone probably told <em>you<\/em> to use APA citation in your work too.<\/p>\n<p>At first, APA rules can seem cumbersome and confusing. However, learning how to use&nbsp;APA citation isn&#8217;t so bad once you get used to the basics.<\/p>\n<p>This handy APA Citation Made Simple infographic can help you make sense of it all. The&nbsp;graphic covers the&nbsp;basic elements of writing APA in-text citations and corresponding reference list entries.&nbsp;We&#8217;ll cover the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Identify the source type.<\/strong> Is your source&nbsp;a book? a web page? a journal? a magazine? or something else entirely? You have to&nbsp;know this before you cite!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plug in your information.<\/strong> It&#8217;s important to know exactly what elements to include in your reference list, which words&nbsp;should be capitalized and italicized, and where to put your punctuation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add to your reference list.<\/strong> Remember to build your references as you write, and always list them alphabetically by the first word in the entry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Create the in-text citation.<\/strong> It sounds more complicated than it is! Follow these simple steps to give credit where credit is due (no matter how many authors you have in your source!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Additional resources.&nbsp;<\/strong>There are several apps that help you build your reference list and generate citations. I give you the low-down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a more detailed explanation of this graphic, I recommend reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/how-to-write-apa-citations\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Write APA Citations in 4 Easy Steps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, without further ado&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>APA Citation Made Simple (Infographic)<\/h2>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic.png\" alt=\"APA Citation\" usemap=\"#map\" width=\"600\" height=\"4000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic-45x300.png 45w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic-15x100.png 15w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2882 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20600%204000%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"APA Citation\" usemap=\"#map\" width=\"600\" height=\"4000\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20600%204000%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic-45x300.png 45w, https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic-15x100.png 15w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/APAInfographic.png\"><\/p>\n<map name=\"map\">\n<area coords=\"507,691,83\" shape=\"circle\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.apastyle.org\/files\/missing-pieces---apa-style-reference-table.pdf\" target=\"blank\">\n<area coords=\"114,3559,94\" shape=\"circle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bibme.org\/\" target=\"blank\">\n<area coords=\"304,3558,90\" shape=\"circle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citationmachine.net\/\" target=\"blank\">\n<area coords=\"496,3558,95\" shape=\"circle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citefast.com\/\" target=\"blank\">\n<area coords=\"90,3670,554,3755\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"www.kibin.com\/blog\/?p=2625\" target=\"blank\">\n<area coords=\"411,3840,551,3928\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/s\/essay-editing\" target=\"blank\">\n<area coords=\"60,3839,172,3931\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kibin\" target=\"blank\"> <\/map>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have spent any amount of time&nbsp;writing papers for your university social sciences courses, you have probably had to learn a thing or two about APA citation. Contrary to popular opinion, APA does NOT stand for A Pain in the A**. Though it may seem so. Rather,&nbsp;APA stands for American Psychological Association. This group &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/apa-citation-infographic\/\" class=\"more-link btn btn-primary\"><b>Read more<\/b><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;APA Citation Made Simple (Infographic)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51,60],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>APA Citation Made Simple (Infographic) - Kibin Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"APA rules can be confusing. 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