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Y10 - Global Health: Youth Health Issues: Referencing

APA Referencing Style - Writing Your Own Bibliography

The reference list should be ordered alphabetically by the last name of the first author of each work. References with no author are ordered in the reference list alphabetically by the first significant word of the title. When preparing an bibliography the following information is needed for different types of resources -

Print Books:

Format -        

Author, A. (year of publication). Title of book. Publisher.

Example -      

Hoang, P. (2014). Business Management. IBID Press.

Images:

              Format –

               Artist/Owner last name, initial. (year). Title of work [Format].  URL

            Example -

            Center for Disease Control. (2016). Malaria lifecycle [Image]. 

                        https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/images/graphs/life_cycle/malaria_lifecycle.gif

Websites:        

Format -        

Author, A. (year of publication). Title of work. URL

Example -      

Pearson, H. (2019). Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them help slow climate change?  https://theconversation.com/sea-creatures-store-carbon-in-the-  ocean-could-protecting-them-help-slow-climate-change-108872

Videos:

Format –

Publishing Author, A. A. (year. date of posting). Title of video [Format]. URL

Example –

Frank, T. (2017, November 3, How to get better at math [Video file]. https://youtu.be/HPsazrVSjl8