This comprehensive guide (35 pages) is designed to help reference the sources of information you use for your assignments. Examples of in-text references and reference list entries can be found for many different types of resources.
View examples for more commonly used resources (books, journal articles, websites) (4 pages).
For VET students who are only required to create a resource list (or bibliography) using the conventions of APA style (6 pages).
Always check with your lecturer or teacher if you are unsure of the guidelines you should follow.
All guides can be downloaded.
Copies of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) are also available to borrow from the LRC at 808.06615 AME.
We are required to reference as it’s the standard way of writing our assignments when at TAFE or University. We are required to acknowledge our sources that we use within our written work and supply a full description of the source at the end of our work. Hence the person who is marking our work knows exactly where our ideas have been formed. If we do not reference we may be plagiarising (using other people’s ideas and words as if they are our own). This is a serious offense at William Angliss.
To reference we use in-text references and also produce a reference list. At William Angliss Institute, students and staff are required to use the APA 6th system.
O’Shannessy, Minett, and Hyde (2008) indicate that tourism can be a multi-faceted word…
O’Shannessy, V., Minett, D., & Hyde, G. (2008). The road to tourism: Skills for the new professional (2nd ed.). Frenchs Forest, N.S.W: Pearson Education Australia.
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While the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual has been published and there are copies in the LRC collection, William Angliss Institute will continue to use APA 6th referencing style for 2020. It is anticipated, that APA 7th style will be implemented in 2021.