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How to document according to APA system

How to document according to APA system
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How to document according to APA system


 What does APA documentation mean? 

APA (American Psychological Association) is a method used to document scientific research references. Documented references for scientific research are required for scientific research to fulfill its right to be pure scientific research.

A good scientific research is a research that contains all the essential elements that are required in the scientific research. The APA documentation of references is one of the elements of scientific research. Good and correct documentation from the Scientific Secretariat.

Because there is a lot of information in scientific research, and the documentation methods vary according to certain criteria. The researcher must follow a certain method to document all references, such as the method of APA documentation.

The researcher should take into account the order of references, and take into account the presence of punctuation of a comma and a full stop and other punctuation marks.

Documentation is the process of keeping, arranging and appreciating the efforts of others, and referring to the source of information. One of the most important features of APA documentation is that it helps to increase the confidence of the results, increase knowledge, and strengthen the scientific integrity of the researcher.

In the APA documentation process, it is necessary to gather complete and accurate source information to increase the honesty and ethics of the research paper.


 How to document APA paper? 

  • If the reference is a book, the reference will be written in the APA paper as: the author's last name, the year of publication, the page or pages, this is done in brackets like this:
  • If the author is one, the reference will be written in the APA paper as: (Turkish, 2002, p. 87) and (Raup, 2003, p.52).
  • If for two authors, the reference will be written in the APA paper as: (Kaddoumi, Abdelhak, 2002, p. 220) and (Costil & Wilmore, 1994, 22.p).
  • If there are three or more, the reference will be written in the APA paper as: the first author's last name, and the word et al. For example: (Anis, et al., p. 2782) and (Adams, et al., 2002, p. 85).
  • If the reference research published in a scientific journal takes into account the above documentation ways.
  • If it is a website, the reference will be written in the APA paper as: author's name (if any), article title, year. Location. For example: (Mandarin. 2002. Economic and environmental feasibility of the exploitation of renewable energy).

 APA writing style at the end of the research paper 

Arab sources and references are listed first, and then foreign sources and references as follows:

  • In order to document a book in Arabic or foreign in an APA documentation, the researcher must observe the following order:
  • The author's family name or fame, followed by his shares, year of publication, the title of the book (underlined). Country of publication. City. Country. An example to this APA documentation: Raup, D. (2003). Principles of Paleontology. Toppan Company. Tokyo. Japan
  • In order to document research published in a scientific journal in Arabic or foreign in an APA documentation, the researcher must take into account the following order: 
  • Author's last name, followed by his name. Year of Publication. Title between quotation marks. Journal name: Volume, number, if any. Pages. An example to this APA documentation: Parker, G. (1990). "Surface-based bedload transport relation for grave/ rivers". Journal of Hydraulic Research. 28 (4): 417- 436.
  • In order to document an unpublished university thesis in Arabic or foreign in an APA documentation, the researcher must observe the following order:
  • In the APA documentation, the last name of the researcher, followed by his name, year, thesis title, college, university, country of publication, and the title of the thesis is enclosed in quotation marks. An example to this APA documentation: (Hanini, Naha M. 2002) Effect of Industrial Stress on Blood Pressure, Heart Rate and Hearing Rate of Factory Workers in Nablus City, Unpublished Master Thesis. College of Graduate Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • Another example to this APA documentation: Al-Najjar, T. (2000). "The seasonal dynamics and grazing control of phyto and mesozooplankton in the Northern Gulf of Aqaba". Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Center for Tropical Marine Ecology. University of Bremen. Germany.
  • In order to document an article from the internet in an APA documentation, the researcher must observe the following order:
  •  Author's last name or nickname, Name. Year of publication. "Article title". Site (underlined). An example to this APA documentation: Mandarin, Basil. (2002). “Economic and Environmental Feasibility of Renewable Energy Exploitation”. http://www.unep.org.bh   


 Importance of APA style paper 

  •  The importance of APA style paper is that writing APA style paper gives a good impression to the supervisor about the interest of scientific researchers in writing their scientific papers in accordance with the instructions addressed to them by their academic supervisors.
  • The importance of APA style paper is that writing APA style paper helps scientific researchers to write their scientific research in an orderly manner. Writing APA style paper helps scientific researchers to put the information they want to write in their scientific research in a way that helps readers to read scientific research without any confusion or misunderstanding about the reference of each piece of information contained in scientific research.
  • The importance of APA style paper is that writing APA style paper makes it easier for the readers to refer to the references they want when they want to learn more about the subject of scientific research.

 How to get an APA format paper? 

  • In order to get an APA format paper, you should refer to many previous scientific researches whose authors have followed the APA in documentation.
  • In order to get an APA format paper, you should follow up from your academic supervisor in order to know how to document references in your APA research in the correct way.
  • In order to get an APA format paper, you should review the latest edition of the book on how to document information in scientific research according to APA in a correct scientific academic way.
  • In order to get an APA format paper, you must know how to use correct punctuation while documenting information in APA scientific research in a correct academic way.
  • In order to get an APA format paper, you should distinguish between how to document references related to scientific books according to APA, as well as references related to scientific journals according to APA, as well as the rest of the types of references that the scholar addresses in order to write a scientific research that contains documented information.
  • In order to get an APA format paper, you should review the documentation according to APA, after the completion of the scientific research document either in the body of scientific research or on the references page at the end of the scientific research.

 Watch: Getting Started with APA Style 

 

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