Annotated Bibliography in APA Style

Throughout the last few blog posts, I have compiled a list of potential sources for my Quick Reference Guide. My annotated bibliography can be found at this link because there were too many formatting errors when trying to format it in Blogger.

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A sample annotated bibliography can be found in the APA 6th edition guide.

Reflection:

After looking through many of my classmates annotated bibliographies, I realized that I was not the only one who struggled to correctly format it on Blogger. A closer look into the formatting provided me with a quick and simple solution. Using a different writing platform, such as Microsoft Word, should address the issues I had.

Victoria's annotated bib was in the same format that I used, and I noticed that the hardest part for both of us was figuring out how to create hanging indentations. After spending quite a bit of time studying the APA style in order to create my annotated bib, I found it very easy to identify where her sources came from, when they were published, and where they were published.

Alex's post allowed me to see the uniqueness of the AMA format. Rather than having citations listed alphabetically, it is preferred for you to list your sources in the order that they appeared in the paper. It also showed me that I need to work on shortening my summaries. Compared to some of my classmates, my summaries are practically essays within themselves and require a lot of reading.

The different citation styles help to identify what field the paper belongs too. Looking through many other blogs, I've found that a lot of the science related controversies use the APA format. Some of the other styles (i.e. IEEE or AMA) I had never seen before, and are likely career field specific.