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SUBJECT LIBGUIDE: LEARNING APA: Citing: Class Notes, Lectures and Presentations in Print

APA is the style of documentation of sources used by the American Psychological Association. This form of writing research papers is used mainly in the social sciences, like psychology, anthropology, sociology, as well as education and other fields.

In-Class Notes Citation: Breaking down the citation in parts

Instructor's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial if given.

  • Authors last name, first and middle name initials
  • If your source uses an Organizations' Name, you use the organizations name i.e  Red Cross; Midwestern Career College
  • If there is no author, use the title of your source:
  • All Proper nouns must be capitalized
  • Punctuation Counts. Put a period after your author
  • Use et al. if there are more than 3 authors 

(Year Handout Was Created if known). 

  • Use Parenthesis: (Year)
  • Place a period after the closing parenthesis (Year).
  • Put the year of the source in the parenthesis
  • If your source has a published year, it will be within the page
  • Put n.d. if the year is unknown

Title of handout: Subtitle if any 

  • This refers to the name of your article used in your paper
  • The first letter of the Title and Subtitle must be capitalized.
  • Title of the article: Subtitle of  the article
  • All Proper nouns must be capitalized
  • Put a period after your title

[Class handout].

[PowerPoint presentation].

  • Select the square brackets around the worked PowerPoint presentation or Class handout
  • Punctuation Counts: Place a period at the end

Location of class:

  • Include the city, state you are taking the course
  • Punctuation Counts: Place a semi colon

Name of school,

  • Enter the name of the school
  • Example: Midwestern Career College
  • Enter a comma after the school’s name

Course code.

  • Enter the course code
  • Example: ENG114
  • Punctuation Counts: Put a period after the course code

Citation: Inclass print materials examples