Citing and Referencing (APA) Lower School: Introduction

For your citation, you will need certain information about the source you have taken words or ideas from.  You then put these bits of information together in a certain way to create the citation.  If you use the tools in Word, it does the hard bit and creates the citation for you.

Notes:

• Publication details for print sources will usually be found on the page immediately after the title page. For year published, look for the most recent date, usually after the ©.
• For online sources, for date published, look on the particular page you got your information from, either at the top or the bottom.  If no date can be found, write n.d.  If no author can be found, leave it blank - but think about whether it is a reliable source of information if you don't know who wrote it.
• The URL is the web address which you find at the top of the page.  Copy and paste this into your work.

*In Lower 1 and Form 1, you do not have to include the date of publication but it is good practice for Form 2 when we do ask for it.

A bibliography is an alphabetical (by author) list of all of the sources you have taken ideas or quotes from and included in your work.  You should include all of the information you used when creating your your citations and it will end up looking like this:

Bibliography:

BBC. (2021). Atoms, elements and compounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zt2hpv4/revision/1

Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2011). Atom. https://school.eb.co.uk/levels/intermediate/article/atom/544929

Oxlade, C. (2002). Atoms.

World Book. (2011). Atom.

The easiest way to create a bibliography is using the referencing tools in Word. Have a look at the 'Guide to using the tools in Word' to find out how to do this.