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With as many examples as the Publication Manual
of the American Psychological Association provides, it doesn't
begin to cover all situations. How do you handle the citation if
the closest citation example you've found in the Manual has
only two authors and your article has four? The answer is
that citing is really more of an art than a science. You have to
begin with the standard citations the Manual provides,
find the similarities with your source, and then use these standard
citations and the rules in the Manual to create a citation
that you feel is most applicable to your resource. See below to
view an example of how to formulate the citation.
Example: You retrieve a transcript
of a television show from a Web site and note the following:
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INFORMATION YOU FIND
Title of the broadcast:
Vietnam: A Television History: The Tet Offensive on The American
Experience;
Executive producer: Richard
Ellison
Broadcast date: November
4, 1983
Produced by: WGBH, Boston,
Accessed on: October
30, 2002
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/107ts.html.
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CLOSEST CITATION EXAMPLE IN APA MANUAL
(TELEVISION BROADCAST)
Crystal, L. (Executive Producer). (1993,
October 11).The
MacNeil/Lehrer news hour (Television broadcast).
New York and Washington, D.C: Public Broadcasting
Service.
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But there is no example for an online transcript
of a television show. How then will you format the citation? When
you study the above citation, you see some similarities with your
reference. You decide you will need:
- the producer's name
- the producer's title
- the date of the broadcast
- the program title
- the type of audiovisual media
- the production location
What additional information will you need? Since
you located the transcript online, you look in the Manual for
the correct way to format electronic resources and find the following:
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Retrieved month day, year, from database name or URL
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subscription database:
Retrieved June 10, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database.
Web site::
Retrieved June 10, 2002, from http://www.umuc.edu
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Thus, for the electronic resource part, you decide
you need
- the date you accessed the transcript
- a URL or subscription database title
In addition, since this is only a transcript and not an actual
show you watched, you decide you need to indicate that your document
is a transcript.
Finally, you come up with the correct citation:
Ellison, R. (Executive Producer). (1983, November
4). The American
experience. Vietnam:
A television history: The Tet
offensive (Television Broadcast
Transcript). Boston: WGBH.
Retrieved October 30, 2002, from
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/107ts.html
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