Final Review

APA Practice

• Hollingshead measured aggressiveness in children before and after exposure to violent video games (2002, p. 15).

  • The year comes after the researcher’s name

  • No page number is needed if there is a direct quote

• Neither Group showed any significant growth (Wong and Tuttle 2005).

  • Use an ampersand (&) when citing parenthetically and put a comma between author(s) and year of publication

• Duffy & Petronius (2002, p. 23) found that none of the subjects showed improvement.

  • No need for comma and page number

  • Use “&” instead of “and”

• Parker (2003) found that there was “no significant difference between the treatment group and the control group.”

  • Missing page number, as there is a direct quote

• Bretschneider, John Garrett and McCoy, Nancy Lewis, 1968. Sexual Interest and Behavior in Healthy 80-102-Year-Olds. Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 14, pp. 343-350