Preview Bibliography In Apa Format

APAFormatforAnnotatedBibliographies

Foranannotatedbibliography,usestandardAPAformatforthecitations,thenaddabrief

abstractforeachentry,including:

• 2to4sentencestosummarizethemainidea(s)oftheitem,and

• 1or2sentencestorelatethematerialtoyourresearchtopicand/ortoevaluatethe

material.

TheformattingforthissamplebibliographyismodeledontheannotatedexamplesintheAPA

PublicationManual,5thedition,pp.370‐375.

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BasicAPAStyleFormatforanAnnotatedBibliography

Formatyourcitationsinthesamemannerasforanormal

referencelist,thenfollowtheseinstructionsforaddingan

annotation.

1. Doublespacetheentirebibliography,includingwithin

thecitationsandannotations.

2. HangingIndentsarerequiredforcitationsinthe

bibliography,asshownbelow.Thatis,thefirstlineof

thecitationstartsattheleftmargin.Subsequentlinesof

thecitationareindented4spaces.

3. Attheendofthecitation,presstheReturnKeytodrop

downtothenextline(doublespaced).Donotadda

blankline.

4. Theannotationisindentedasablock,2additional

spaces.

5. Therightmarginisthenormalrightmarginofyour

document.

6. Inalongbibliography,organizeyourentriesbytopic,

suchasʺMultipleIntelligencesʺ.Seebelow.

Updated for 5th edition

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