Introduction to citation

For me, this is actually a very important topic, that is because i am going to apply and use it a lot in my report in study and also my future. Before that, when doing a report, i ussualy did the reference lists by using microsoft word software. Therefore, i was not clear about ciation. However, in this course i have a chance to study this useful lecture so that i can have knowlegde and understand clearly about this.
Firstly, i have knwon the defination of bibliography or we call reference.This is a list of book or other materials which have some relationship to each other. It contains author, year of publication, title, place of publication and publisher.

APA STYLE

APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6^th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.

There are 3 rules for which are about author, title and documentation.

 

For the author: we start with family name, follow by coma and initials of other part of name. For 2 to 6 authors, we use (&) before the last name. More than 6 authors, we use "et al" after the 6th author. For muslim names, malaysia and chineses names, we cite as they are known.
For the title, we capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title. We underline or italic the title of book, journal, megazine or newpaper.
For document, arranged in alphabetical oder, do not put the number/bullet in reference. And we use a hanging indent and single space.