This introductory resource guide is for UVic Faculty of Education students looking for supplementary resources held by UVic Libraries on the topic of language and literacy research.
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Gregory Younging's Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples is an excellent resource if you are drawing upon Indigenous ways of knowing within your scholarship.
The new (7th) edition of APA asks for the DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available, for citations for electronic journal articles. Note that a DOI does not always exist for an online article. If the article has one, it can sometimes be found in the database entry (but not always) or is often included with the Journal Name at either the top or bottom of the first page of the article itself.
Alternatively, if you have the citation information, you can look up the DOI number in CrossRef :
2. Copy and paste your citation information and CrossRef will supply the DOI number, if available.
It is essential to give credit when you use other people's content in your academic work. Your assignments and exams must be your own original work, not someone else's.
"The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft. (Oxford English Dictionary online, 2006) Check out UVic Libraries' guides on what the types of plagiarism are and how to avoid plagiarism.Video time stamps:
0:00-1:55 Introduction
1:56-3:24 Elements of Indigenous Style
3:25-13:09 American Psychological Association (APA)
13:10-25:50 Literature reviews and bibliographies
25:51-29:02 Citation management systems
29:03-30:34 Review and links for more help
APA (American Psychological Association) citation style is the most frequently used citation style for studies in Education. It follows the basic format of author last name, author first initial, year in brackets, article title, journal title italicized, volume italicized, number or issue in brackets, page range, and if you viewed this electronically you will need to include a 'Retrieved from' url which may include a DOI (digital object identifier).
Here is an example:
Campbell, C. (2017). Developing teachers’ professional learning: Canadian evidence and experiences in a world of educational improvement. Canadian Journal of Education, 40(2), 1-33. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/docview/1922374798?accountid=14846
For many more examples of both in-text and reference list possibilities, consult our handy UVic Libraries' APA Quick Guide (7th ed).
For other citation style guides, such as MLA (Modern Language Association), consult our citation help pages:
UVic Style Guide handouts - APA, MLA and more.
Need more information on APA? Check out the following:
