PTA Orientation

You will need to use APA style to properly cite your chosen sources within the text of your paper and on your References page. The college offers several resources designed to help you with this task, including:

          -APA Style Guide (templates, sample references, and in-text citation guidance)

          -Allied health APA Guide (similar to the general guide above, but targeted towards health resources)

          -APA Checklist (list of most common APA errors)

          -APA tutorial (hands-on demonstration of common APA issues)

Please remember that you must cite all sources when referencing them within your paper! Page 1 of the APA Style Guide describes how to do this for resources with and without a personal author. Be especially mindful of direct quotations, which require quotation marks around the cited passage and the page number you found the text (if available). As an example, see the direct quotation and corresponding APA reference entry below.

In-text citation

The study authors found that "yoga intervention has proven to be effective in enhancing self‑esteem, emotional regulation, and positive feelings among the students practicing yoga" (Janjhua et al., 2020, p. 3383).

References entry

Janjhua, Y., Chaudhary, R., Sharma, N. & Kumar, K. (2020). A study on effect of yoga on emotional 

          regulation, self-esteem, and feelings of adolescents. Journal of Family Medicine & Primary Care, 9(7),

          3381-3386. 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_153_20

NoodleBib

NoodleBib is a program which can help you to automatically generate APA citations for your assignment. To create a NoodleBib account, you will need to create an account and enter the college password, which is library. To create a project, click on the green +New Project button in the upper right-hand corner, add a title, select APA (APA Publication Manual, 7th ed.) under the "Citation style" heading and Advanced under the "Citation level" heading. Once you have created a Project, you can add sources to it using the green +New Source button, also in the upper right-hand corner. Select where you found the item (Database, website, print, etc...) and the resource type (e.g. journal article, book) to generate a template. Do not fill in every available field! Cross-reference your resource type with our APA sheets to determine which fields are necessary to include. Be sure to include proper spelling and capitalization.

When you are ready to print, click on the   and select "Print/Export to Word", as shown below. NoodleBib will export a fully-formatted version of your References list. Be sure to review it carefully for errors!