Library Business Worksheet 5: APA Citation Style
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1. Prepare a short list of References (3 sources) in APA citation style, omitting italics in the title. (You can however press enter at the end of the first line and use the space bar to create a hanging indent.)
2. Model an "in text" reference to one of your sources in one sentence that might appear in your review of the literature. For example: Wells (2006) addresses fraud at Enron and Worldcom, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and prospects for preventing future corporate failures.
3. Reflecting on your database searches, do you think your strategy was effective? How would you change your search strategy or your topic sentence to obtain different results?