APA Referencing system

 A bibliography is important because you have to acknowledge others work in your own piece.You have to reference these pieces or you may get in trouble for plagiarism. APA means American Psychology Association.The APA referencing system is a way of referencing these pieces in a format followed by most of the world. You must include when you reference:

• The authors surname.
• The year of publication .
• The page number.
• A paraphrase or quotation from the source.

Example:

The feminist perspective offers exciting possibilities for us to re-see and reinterpret works of art, as Huffington (1988) demonstrates in her biography of Picasso:

What seemed a life guided by burning passions – for painting, for women, for ideas – seemed a moment later the story of a man unable to love, intent on seduction not in the search for love, not even in the desire to possess, but in a compulsion to destroy. (p.10)

From Writing About Art (p. 10), by H. M. Sayre. (1999). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Copyright 1999 by H. M. Sayre.

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