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ABST 1100: Canadian Aboriginal Experience (Miranda-Barrios)

Citing Your Sources in APA Style

When you incorporate another person's thoughts or words into your own writing, it is important to cite your source. Citations:

  • Give the original author the credit they deserve
  • Strengthen your assignments, by supporting ideas with research
  • Point your reader to the original work, in case they'd like to consult it themselves
  • Show the evolution of scholarship on a topic over time.

For helpful examples of APA style citations, visit the following guides:

Noting an Author's Community Membership

It is not an official requirement of APA style, but you may wish to include the name of the community with which an author identifies the first time you reference their work in text. 

References list
Justice, D.H. (2018). Why Indigenous literature matters. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

In-text citation
(Justice (Cherokee Nation), 2018)

Adapted from Edwards, A. (2019). Unsettling the future by uncovering the past: Decolonizing academic libraries and librarianship. Partnership, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v14i1.5161

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