APA formatting - Review Essay

Hi,
I've tried looking this up on Google, but so far I've come up with nothing. It would be great if anyone can answer this :)

For titles for an essay written in APA format, if it is a review of a journal article, how would I incorporate the article into the title? (This isn't my title, but just something I made up) If the title was: "Dogs and Cats: A Review of _______" where ____would be where I would like to mention the journal article, would I write the article title in italics or in quotation marks in APA style?

Also, for in-text citations, if I need to mention the journal title in one of the body paragraphs, how would I do this?

Thank you!

So, you are trying to come up with the title? How about:

Dogs ad Cats: A Review of Stephen King's Essay "Bler De Bler De Bler"

Or:

Dogs and Cats: A review of "Bler De Bler De Bler" by Stephen King.

Titles of books need italics, but titles of essays or articles can go in quotes. I hope I am understanding your question correctly and not misleading you. Anyone else have thoughts about this?

Thank you!

For in-text citations then, should I follow the same format (with the article title in quotation marks) ? ("In "Bler De Bler De Bler" by Stephen King, he explores~")?

You can find plenty of guides on the various citation styles on-line. This site library.concordia.ca/help/howto/apa.php is particularly useful.

For in-text citations, you still have to use the author's last name and date:

(King, 2002)

After th first time you do that, you don't need the date. If you are writing article reviews, your writing focuses mainly on one article, so you probably would not have much need to put the person's name in parentheses to tell who you are talking about. I hope that answers your question!! Good luck!

If you are quote directly from the text, you need to include the page number as well. For example, (King, 2002, p.2).

This is APA format that i refer to.

Yes, right on! That is important, good call! It is like that with MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard, too, I think.

With MLA, it's just the number, and no date, so (King 2). This is what makes citing stuff so annoying, especially if you move back and forth between systems. Fortunately, Office takes care of this for me now.

Good call, I didn't realize I may have made that look like I was saying the date needs to be included in those styles. That last post from me was referring to the need for a page number when using a direct quote.

And it is annoying also that in MLA there is no comma separating the items in parentheses and in APA there is!

hi, i was reading your posts in here and it happens that i also have the same problem. i just want to ask what if the information are incomplete. i mean, what if the article on the internet is from an anonymous source and does not have any dates and the other info.?

If there is no authors listed and no date mentioned, you need to find the title of the article.
For example,

In-text citation:

Many companies use Web 2.0 as their business tools ("Web 2.0 Summit 2008", n.d.).

References:

Web 2.0 Summit 2008.(n.d.). Springfield: Web Master.

Hope this is helpful.

Yes, and sometimes in an APA reference list, you have to put "no date"

Smith, R. (no date). The woes of citing sources. Retrieved February 27, 2009 from: www.essayforum.com

APA doesn't allow you to abbreviate "no date" to "n.d."? That's unfortunate. I know many systems of citation allow you to cut down on amount you have to write in the bibliography by abbreviating many of the common phrases that crop up. For instance, in MLA, you can reduce "University Press" to UP.

Hi, I actually don't know what made me type that! Somehow, I missed the reference list example... it was not my intention to say you could not abreviate. I just flipped through the APA manual and could not find a specific rule about that, but I am guessing it is fine to abbreviate. My error! :)

That's all right. I didn't know that MLA didn't put a comma between the author and the page number. I left the comma off in my example, but that was actually a mistake. It was only when you mentioned it that I looked it up online and realized that my mistake was actually correct, and that what I had intended to do, what I have always done with MLA, was wrong. And I used MLA for all of my essays for five years. Just goes to show that this citation thing can be really, really confusing, even for professionals.