The Basics of Citing and Referencing in APA 7th Edition — Transcript

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1. 0:00what's up guys welcome to the smart
2. 0:01student my name is chelsea siebern
3. 0:03today's video i'm excited you're here
4. 0:05because we're going to talk about
5. 0:07two topics that i discuss quite
6. 0:10frequently on this channel but i want to
7. 0:11talk about them side by side because
8. 0:13quite frankly these topics are linked
9. 0:15together and i think for your
10. 0:17understanding it's really important to
11. 0:19have them side by side and that is
12. 0:21talking about referencing and in-text
13. 0:24citations because if you're most college
14. 0:26students out there you're writing in apa
15. 0:29formatting and you know you need to
16. 0:31create reference list entries and
17. 0:32in-text citations and both of those
18. 0:34topics are fairly complex so let's start
19. 0:37with the relationship between the two
20. 0:39how are they linked why do you need to
21. 0:41use them well basically when you're
22. 0:43writing academic papers aka scientific
23. 0:46based aka research based you're using
24. 0:49information you find from other people
25. 0:51you're using their ideas their words
26. 0:53their thoughts what have you
27. 0:55and you're paraphrasing it or you're
28. 0:56directly quoting it in your papers in
29. 0:59order to do so you need to make sure you
30. 1:01credit where you originally found that
31. 1:03information so the way you credit an
32. 1:06original source is by creating a
33. 1:08reference list entry now that's step one
34. 1:12because when you're writing your paper
35. 1:14you also need to indicate where that
36. 1:16material came from there as well
37. 1:18otherwise how would anyone know where
38. 1:20what came from where but to summarize
39. 1:22the relationship between a reference
40. 1:24list entry and an in-text citation is
41. 1:26that the in-text citation
42. 1:28links the material in your paper to the
43. 1:30reference list entry at the end of your
44. 1:32paper which will link to the original
45. 1:35source where you found that information
46. 1:37from with that understanding now let's
47. 1:39jump into my laptop where we're going to
48. 1:41go through templates and examples so
49. 1:44you'll really really understand this all
50. 1:46right come with me
51. 1:48woohoo we're here
52. 1:50all right we're going to dive right into
53. 1:51this tutorial because at this point you
54. 1:53understand the relationship between the
55. 1:55reference list entry and the in-text
56. 1:57citation
57. 1:58now we need to discuss what this looks
58. 2:00like in action so when you're out there
59. 2:02writing your paper what do you actually
60. 2:03need to do in order to link these two
61. 2:06items together and yes note that the
62. 2:08document is color coordinated because
63. 2:10this is going to help with your
64. 2:11understanding i promise
65. 2:13okay
66. 2:15the first thing we need to understand is
67. 2:17a reference list entry more specifically
68. 2:19the four elements of a reference so
69. 2:22these are the four items that you need
70. 2:23to include in your reference list
71. 2:25entries for it to be considered correct
72. 2:27and complete but what those four
73. 2:28elements are is the author the date the
74. 2:32title and the source so as you can see
75. 2:34in the real life example you have all of
76. 2:37those four elements present yay you have
77. 2:40properly and adequately cited this
78. 2:42source you've credited the author
79. 2:45but you're not quite done yet because
80. 2:46when you're writing your paper
81. 2:48and you include material from another
82. 2:50source you need to make sure you credit
83. 2:52them in your paper as you have in your
84. 2:55reference list
85. 2:56so this is where the in-text citations
86. 2:59come in and quite frankly all in-text
87. 3:02citations will always have two elements
88. 3:04present you have the author and the date
89. 3:07and now
90. 3:08if you're wondering why only those two
91. 3:10elements and not the four
92. 3:12first of all if you included all four
93. 3:14that would clutter up muddy up your
94. 3:16paper quite a bit and number two if you
95. 3:19have the author and the date that makes
96. 3:21it very easy to go down to the reference
97. 3:23list entry and spot which reference that
98. 3:26material belongs to because that's the
99. 3:28first two items you're going to see
100. 3:31now every once in a while you'll need to
101. 3:33include a third element which is the
102. 3:35source locator and the source locator if
103. 3:38you note is blue because it corresponds
104. 3:41with the source type so in this example
105. 3:44parat9 that's stands for paragraph nine
106. 3:47so this might be an online article
107. 3:50and they're referring to the paragraph
108. 3:52if it were a youtube video or a podcast
109. 3:54you'd use the timestamp but with that we
110. 3:56know how to link these two together next
111. 3:58which is already kind of alluded to here
112. 4:01let's discuss the two different types of
113. 4:03written material that require a citation
114. 4:06that is paraphrase material and material
115. 4:08that is directly quoted paraphrase
116. 4:11material
117. 4:12this is when you're expressing another
118. 4:14author's ideas but you're writing them
119. 4:16in your own words and quite frankly this
120. 4:19should account for 98 of citable
121. 4:22material
122. 4:23in other words directly direct quotes
123. 4:25should be used sparingly because this is
124. 4:27when you're using another person's words
125. 4:30verbatim and verbatim is the key word
126. 4:32here because in order to directly quote
127. 4:34somebody you have to leave it as you
128. 4:36found it the words have to stay exactly
129. 4:38as they are otherwise you need to
130. 4:41paraphrase correctly or you're going to
131. 4:43miss some points
132. 4:44all right the last thing
133. 4:46is let's discuss the two delivery
134. 4:48options you have for this in other words
135. 4:50you have a choice on how you format both
136. 4:53paraphrase material and directly quoted
137. 4:55material and that is through either a
138. 4:58parenthetical or a narrative citation
139. 5:00and the gist is that they're exactly
140. 5:02what they sound like a parenthetical
141. 5:04citation is when you
142. 5:06enclose the elements for the in-text
143. 5:08citation in parentheses
144. 5:10like you see it is here
145. 5:12for a narrative citation you're simply
146. 5:14going to incorporate the elements into
147. 5:16the structure of the sentence generally
148. 5:18something as you see it is in this
149. 5:20example you would include the author's
150. 5:22last name into the sentence structure
151. 5:24followed by the date enclosed in
152. 5:26parentheses
153. 5:28now if it's a direct quote you're going
154. 5:30to follow these same principles however
155. 5:32you're going to be formatting per a
156. 5:34direct quote meaning you're going to
157. 5:36include the direct quote
158. 5:38in double quotations to signify this
159. 5:41so if this were a parenthetical citation
160. 5:44as you can see you have that third
161. 5:45element but the rest stays the same you
162. 5:48have the elements enclosed in
163. 5:49parentheses at the end of the sentence
164. 5:51and moving down to the narrative
165. 5:53citation the only thing that's different
166. 5:55here is that a direct quote that's using
167. 5:57a narrative citation apa asks that you
168. 5:59include the source locator at the end of
169. 6:01the sentence enclosed in parentheses
170. 6:03simply so it doesn't distract from the
171. 6:05structure of the sentence and we're back
172. 6:08all right i hope that helped with your
173. 6:10understanding let me know down in the
174. 6:11description if it was helpful and by the
175. 6:14way if apa formatting specifically
176. 6:16referencing in citation creating is
177. 6:18something you struggle with i now have a
178. 6:21live workshop specifically on this topic
179. 6:24called apa made easy where i'm gonna hop
180. 6:26on camera live hang out with you guys
181. 6:28for roughly 45 minutes to an hour i'm
182. 6:31gonna make this crystal clear for you so
183. 6:33your life is so much easier when you're
184. 6:35out there writing those academic papers
185. 6:37hopefully getting all a's
186. 6:39if you'd like to find a date and time
187. 6:41that works for your schedule there's a
188. 6:42link somewhere up here and one down in
189. 6:44the description below i have a lot of
190. 6:46dates and times especially coming up in
191. 6:48the next few months so be sure to check
192. 6:51that and
193. 6:52i'll see you in the next video bye