Documenting with sources

Documentation let people acknowledge your words, ideas, views and findings based on your sources. It is a system used to give credit to your sources. There are few styles that we used in documenting the sources. One of the systems is the APA (American Psychology Association) that we are usually used in writing our assignments. APA system style is used for the social science and business discipline. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6^th edition (2009) is the guidelines and documentation style we used in writing.

Documenting sources is important in order to let people know that you are doing your homework by building the sentences based on the ideas and research of others. Besides, it will help you to identify the location of the original document if he or she interested. Plagiarism can be avoided by documenting the sources.

There are two main parts in APA-style citation which is an in-text citation which is include in main text of the paper and an entry in an alphabetical list of references which appears in the end of the paper. For in-text citation, it can be presented in two places which are within the text or at the end of the text. There are also several ways for you to follow whether it is information-prominent citation and author prominent citation. Information given is emphasis in information-prominent citation and appears at the end of the sentences. For author-prominent citation the author’s name is primary important and usually it is place at the beginning in the sentences.

It is important for you to differentiate between bibliography and references. Bibliography is list of material consulted in writing include videos and others. Meanwhile, references are list of sources used in actual writing of assignment. The references must be in a new page and you have to organize the authors’ name in alphabetical order. It is important to know the right format in listing your sources.