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Citations and Plagiarism

APA Citation Examples

Author(s). (Date). Book title. Publisher.

Example:

Long, S. P., & Mason, C. F. (1983). Saltmarsh ecology. Blackie.

Chapter Author(s). (Date). Chapter title. In Editor Names (Eds.), Book title. (edition, page numbers). Publisher.

Example:

Cardille, J. A., & Jackson, M. M. (2017). Citizen science for assessing landscape change. In S. E. Gergel & M. G. Turner, (Eds.), Learning landscape ecology: a practical guide to concepts and techniques. (2nd ed., pp. 41-42). Springer. 

Author(s). (Date). Article title. Journal title, Volume, Pages.

Example:

Sinha, E., Michalak, A. M., & Balaji, V. (2017). Eutrophication will increase during the 21st century as a result of precipitation changes. Science, 357(6349), 405-408.

Author(s). (Date). Journal title. Journal, Volume, Pages. DOI:

Example:

Woolway, E. E., & Goodenough, A. E. (2017). Effects of visitor numbers on captive European red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and impacts on visitor experience. Zoo Biology, 36(2), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21357  

Author. (Date). Website Title. Site name. URL

Example:

Gepford, K. (2024, February 20). The remote island where giant tortoises clear runways for albatrosses. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240220-the-giant-tortoises-boosting-biodiversity-in-the-galpagos

Webpage on a website with a retrieval date.
When contents of a page are designed to change over time but are not archived, include a retrieval date in the reference.

Example:

U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). U.S. and world population clock. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved February 23, 2024, from https://www.census.gov/popclock/

Organize your citations!