Referencing: APA Referencing

Reference lists allow others to access your sources, so they must give full details of all the published sources used in the assignment.

When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998), and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.

In Microsoft Word, you can automatically generate a reference list (or other similar document requiring citations) of the sources you used to write your paper. Each time you add a new citation to your document, Word adds that source so that it appears in the reference list in the proper format, such as MLA, APA, and Chicago-style.