How to Cite Sources - APA Style

What is a citation?

A "citation" is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work comes from another source. It also gives to your readers the information necessary to find that source again.

Why should I cite sources?

Giving credit to the original author by citing sources is the only way to use other people's work without plagiarizing. But there are a number of other reasons to cite sources.

When do I need to cite?

Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you need to acknowledge their source.

Information taken from: https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-citation

What is APA Style?

APA means American Psychological Association.

It is a group of people that in 1929 established a simple set of procedures and style rules to be applied to formal writings to make easier the reading comprehension.

Information taken from: https://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/what-is-apa-style

How to citate according to APA Style:

1. How to citate information from a website:
To citate information from a website, you must consider: 

• Author
• Date of publication
• Website title
• Place of publication
• Article title
• URL (link)

2. How to citate information from a YouTube video:

To citate information from a YouTube video, you must consider: 

• Author
• User name of the author
• Date of publication (year, month day)
• Title of the video
• File of the video [file name]
• URL of the video

3. How to citate information from an online magazine:
To citate information from an online magazine, you must consider: 

• Authors lastname
• Date of publication
• Title of the article
• Title of the magazine
• Number of the issue and edition
• Pages' numbers
• URL (link)

 4. How to citate information from an online regular publication article:
To citate information from an online regular publication article, you must consider: 

• Authors' last name
• Year of publication
• Title of the article
• Name of the magazine
• Number of the issue
• Pages' number
• URL (link)

5. How to citate an online picture:

To citate an online picture or image, you must consider: 

• Author's name.
• Year of publication.
• Date of publication
• Title of the image.
• Type of image (figure, map, photo, digital image, ...)
• Retrieved from: URL

Class Activity - Personal work

Past civilizations contribuited to the formation of current systems and technologies.

Go to your OneDrive and create an online Word document, name the document:

APA STYLE 5X NAME LASTNAME

Follow the links for each question below, and cite the sources from which you take the information.

Title: Past Civilizations' Systems and Technologies

Questions:

1. How did the "Quipus" number system in the Inca civilization work?
http://www.historyshistories.com/inca-science-innovation--technology-activity.html
*Use APA Style for a website

2.  Where was democracy system created?
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-greece/ancient-greece-democracy
*Use APA Style for a regular publication

3. What is the Mayan Calendar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rijwHwOy8g
*Use APA Style for a YouTube video

The Maya created an elegant system of cycles to measure time according to the frequencies of nature, taking into account the specific cycles for universal time, agriculture and human beings...

No other civilization that the Mayans had a specific unique calendar dedicated to the human being, the sacred and personal calendar of the Maya was created to help human beings understand the daily frequency of nature and to empower the individual with the energy of universe. In this calendar system days are made up of two concepts; the tones, and the day signs; the 13-day count is constituted by the tones or numbers 1 through 13, these numbers tell us about the intention of creation and they described its feminine aspect. In parallel each day is assigned one of 20 different signs, these signs describe the masculine aspect of the creation, these day signs are also named...

4. The Mayan Tones of the Creation
http://www.canaldelmisterio.com/tonos-mayas/
*Use APA Style for an online picture



5. The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China 
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-China-a-technological-innovator
*Use APA Style for an online picture

6. How today's technology helps to find old legacies still hidden?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/07/solving-india-ancient-mysteries-citizen-archaeologists/
*Use APA Style for an online magazine

7. When and how printing technology was created in China?
http://www.computersmiths.com/chineseinvention/blockprint.htm
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press#section_1
*Use APA Style for a website

8. How was the writing system in ancient Greece?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-alphabet
https://www.ancient.eu/Greek_Alphabet/
*Use APA Style for a website

9. How did aqueducts systems affect Roman life?
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/roman-aqueducts/
http://historicalmasterpieces.weebly.com/the-importance-of-roman-aqueducts.html
*Use APA Style for a websit


*Challenging task:

10. A question about your exhibition project.

11. Online image about an exhibition project.

Lets make a reflection

Resources:

Scribbr, primary and secondary sources of information
Sources fo Information
Online Sources
Normas APA
APA Style
Plagiarism
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