Criminal Justice & Sociology (Penn State Berks)

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Here are some examples of APA References:

Scholarly Journal Article

Stringer, E. C., & Murphy, J. (2020). Major decisions and career attractiveness among criminal justice students. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 31(4), 523-541.  doi: 10.1177/1557085113504450

Book

Russell, B.  (2010). Battered woman syndrome as a legal defense: History, effectiveness and implications. McFarland.

Conference Paper

Murphy, J. (2014).  “Students as educational mentors in a local prison.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR.

Government Publications

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.  (2021, Nov. 2).  Intimate partner violence: Prevention strategies.  https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/prevention.html

Law

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, 42 USC §§5101-5106.

Court Case

Blystone v. Pennsylvania, 494 U.S. (1990).

Web Site

To cite an entire web site, you can give the web address in only the text:

NDCI offers reports, statistics, and books about the nation's drug courts (http://www.ndci.org/).

To cite a specific page:

Meyer, W.G. (2015).  Constitutional and other legal issues in drug court.  In National Drug Court Institute. Retrieved July 23, 2015, from http://www.ndci.org/law

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Stringer, E. C., & Murphy, J. (2020). Major decisions and career attractiveness among criminal justice students. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 31(4), 523-541.  doi: 10.1177/1557085113504450

Paraphrasing (putting other author's ideas into your own words):

Option 1:

Stringer and Murphy (2020) point out that race, gender, popular TV shows and film, as well as peer support play roles in shaping students' decision to major in criminal justice.

Option 2:

Race, gender, popular TV shows and film, as well as peer support play roles in shaping students' decision to major in criminal justice (Stringer & Murphy, 2020).

Quoting (using other authors' exact wording):

Option 1:

Stringer and Murphy (2020) note that "race and gender are implicated in attraction to the major as well as career aspirations" (p. 539).

Option 2:

Research has found that "race and gender are implicated in attraction to the major as well as career aspirations" (Stringer & Murphy, 2020, p. 539).

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