Geography Department Style
The Department of Geography & the Environment uses APA Style (7th ed.) for citations.
APA Resources
- APA Style BlogAPA editors answer tricky citation questions
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Ed.) by Call Number: BF76.7 .P83ISBN: 9781433832161Publication Date: 2020Reference section, 1st floor Boatwright Library.
- Purdue OWL - APA Style GuideResources on APA in-text citation and references as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.
Why You Should Cite Your Sources
Citation: A (Very) Brief Introduction from NCSU Libraries
- University of Richmond Honor Council & the UR Honor CodeThe UR Honor Council maintains the University's Honor Code used in order to maintain high standards of academic integrity. This website provides information on the Honor Code Pledge students are required to acknowledge for assignments.
Hanging Indents in Word and Google Docs
APA Quirks & Common Mistakes
Sentence case
- Capitalize only the first letter at the beginning of a title:
- Three ways to combat climate change through the courts. (CORRECT)
- Three Ways to Combat Climate Change Through the Courts. (INCORRECT)
- Capitalize the first letter after any punctuation in a title:
- Cities and climate change: Urban sustainability and global environmental governance (CORRECT)
- Cities and climate change: urban sustainability and global environmental governance (INCORRECT)
- Proper nouns are also capitalized in titles:
- Economic mobility and the rise of the Latin American middle class (CORRECT)
- Economic mobility and the rise of the latin american middle class (INCORRECT)
"Retrieved from" dates
- Generally you do not need to list the date when you accessed a website:
- Retrieved from https://thewalrus.ca/a-future-without-sharks/ (CORRECT) vs.
- Retrieved November 8, 2018 from https://thewalrus.ca/a-future-without-sharks/ (INCORRECT)
- Only list the date when the content is designed to be constantly updated (like on a wiki)
- Retrieved August 1, 2022 from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay (CORRECT)
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