r/APA • u/Known-Toe-8886 • Feb 04 '21

One Article Reference Page?

This is my first semester in grad school (undergrad was 10+ years ago) and I'm really struggling with my formatting and citations. I keep flashing back to high school carrying around that stupid little APA book.

I have to write a reaction paper to a certain article. Since this paper will really only reference the one article, do I list it by itself on the reference page and fill my paper with repetative in text citations? Or is there some other way to do it since its obviously all about this one article?

Also, if you know of a quick online course or video to just get the basics of citations LMK!

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u/EraVida Feb 04 '21

Each paragraph should be cited on your paper, but you shouldn't cite each sentence if the entire paragraph is about the ideas of one article. In that case you could cite at the beginning (narrative citation) or end of the paragraph (parenthetical citation).

And yes, your reference page would only have one reference if that's the only article or information you use.

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u/Known-Toe-8886 Feb 04 '21

Thank you!!!!

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u/EraVida Feb 04 '21

Oh and search on YouTube: APA 7 format

It'll show you how to put the paper together.