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APA Citation Style (7th edition)

An Introduction to using APA Citation Style (7th Edition)

Class notes, PowerPoints, etc.

Class notes (Sec. 8.9 APA Publication Manual)

  • Cite information from your own personal notes from a lecture as a personal communication and refer to it only in the body of your essay. Do not add to your Reference List.

Reference
Example

No Reference list entry required

In-text
Example

In a lecture on November 23, 2018, to a Anth 101 class, instructor Reade said...

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PowerPoint presentation or Lecture Notes posted to D2L (10.14 example 102 APA Publication Manual)

  • If the slides come from a classroom website (Moodle, etc.) and you are writing for an audience with access to that resource, provide the name of the site and its URL. Use the login page URL for sites requiring a login.

Format

Author, A.A. (date). Title of File [Format]. Name of site. URL

Reference Example

Reade, J. (2018). Family formation. [PowerPoint slides]. https://moodle.cnc.bc.ca/

In-text Example

(Reade, 2018, slide 4)

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