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SUBJECT LIBGUIDE: LEARNING APA: Citing: Class Notes, Lectures and Presentations through online sources

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.

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 Presentation Created). 

  • 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

Title of presentation: 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

[PowerPoint presentation].    

[Class handout]. 

  • Select the square brackets around the word PowerPoint presentation
  • Punctuation Counts: Place a period at the end

Retrieved from D2L-Brightspace

Retrieved from Webpage Link

  • The source is the webpage used in your paper
  • Use ‘retrieved from’
  • After ‘Retrieved from’ add the website or LMS you used
  • Example: Retrieved from D2L-Brightspace
  • Example: Retrieved from https://www.mccollege.edu

Citation: Class Notes Examples