Tutorial – APA Style Citation – Reference List

Practice 1

Write proper reference entries for the following information.

1. How physical text layout affects reading from screen │Behaviour &
Information Technology│Dyson, M. │23(6) │(2004)│377-393

2. 31(4) │Mangen, A. │Journal of Research in Reading │(2008) │doi: 10.1111/j.1467-

9817.2008.00380.x │Hypertext fiction reading: Haptics and immersion │25-44

3. (2015, September 2). │ Retrieved July 7, 2016, (Ignored)│

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/02/social-media-overtakes-entertainment-as-
favourite-online-activity │Jackson, J. │Social media overtakes entertainment as favourite
online activity │The Guardian

4. Sage Publications │(2011)│Creswell, J. & Plano-Clark, V. │California (Ignored)

│Designing and Conducting Mixed Method Research

5. Oxford │Austin, J.L. │How to Do Things with Words │(1962) │Oxford University Press

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Practice 2

Write a list of references for an essay from the information given below.

1. We don’t know who wrote this newspaper article. It was in the Guardian newspaper on
Saturday November 6th this year. The title is: Divorced couple fight for frozen embryos. It is
on page 18.

2. Someone called Andy Gillett wrote this web page, which is very useful, and he worked at the
University of Hertfordshire. It was published on May 6 th this year. The title is: Using English
for Academic purposes. The URL is http://www.uefap.com/ and I copied some information
from it for this exercise on Sunday November 7th at 11.00 at night.

3. This was published in 1991 in Oxford and is a book by Professor John Sinclair. The title of
the book is: Corpus, concordance and collocation and the publisher was Oxford University
press.

4. This small book is called: learning purpose and language use. It was written by Henry George
Widdowson and published in 1983. Like all his books it was published in Oxford by Oxford
University Press.
5. This newspaper article was written by Jane Martinson in New York. The title of the article is:
Microsoft faces defining moment, and it was in the Guardian on page 10 on Saturday
November 6th, 1999.

6. This book, like many dictionaries, does not say who wrote it. The title is: Collins
COBUILD English language dictionary and it was published in 1987 by Harper Collins in
London.

7. An article in the journal: Applied linguistics. It was written in 1985 by E Bialystock and M
Sharwood-Smith. The title of the article is: Interlanguage is not a state of mind: An evaluation
of the construct for second language acquisition. It was published in volume 6 and it is from
page 101 to page 117.

8. An article in a collection of articles edited by John Lyoris. The title of the article is: the study
of language acquisition, and it was written by Robin Campbell and Roger Wales. It was on
pages 242 to 260. The book of articles was called: new horizons in linguistics and it was
published in 1970 by Penguin in London.
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9. An article by Robert Cooper called: What do we learn when we learn a language? It

was published in 1970 in the journal TESOL Quarterly. It is on pages 303-314 in
volume 4.

10. A very important book written in 1965 by W F Mackey. It was called: Language teaching
analysis. It was published in London by Longman.

11. A book written by Noam Chomsky, who was professor of linguistics at MIT in
Cambridge Massachusetts. It was written in 1965 and the title of the book is: Aspects of
the theory of syntax. It was published by his own university.

12. A book by Lyle F Bachman and Adrian S Palmer written in 1996. The title is: Language
testing in practice. It is published by Oxford University Press in Oxford.
 References
Austin, J.L. (1962). How to do things with words. Oxford University Press.  

Creswell, J., & Plano-Clark, V. (2011).  Designing and conducting mixed method

research.  Sage Publications.

Dyson, M. (2004). How physical text layout affects reading from screen. Behaviour &

Information Technology, 23 (6), 377-393.

Jackson, J (2015, September 2). Social media overtakes entertainment as favourite online

activity. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/02/social-media-

overtakes-entertainment-as- favourite-online-activity

Mangen, A (2008). Hypertext fiction reading: Haptics and immersion. Journal of Research in

Reading,  31(4), 25-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1467- 9817.2008.00380.x 

References
Bialystock E., & Sharwood-Smith. (1985).  Interlanguage is not a state of mind: An evaluation

of the construct for second language acquisition, 6, 101-117.

Campbell, R. & Wales, R. (1970).  The study of language acquisition. In J. Lyoris (Ed.), New

horizons in linguistics  (pp. 242-260). Penguin.

Divorced couple fight for frozen embryos. (2021, November 6). The Guardian, p.18.

Gillett, A. (2021, May 6). Using English for Academic purposes.  http://www.uefap.com/

Martinson, J. (1999, November 6). Microsoft faces defining moment. The Guardian, p. 10. 

Collins COBUILD English language dictionary. (1987). Harper Collins.

Sinclair, J. (1991).  Corpus, concordance and collocation.   Oxford University Press.

Widdowson, H. G. (1983). Learning purpose and language use. Oxford University Press.

Cooper, R. (1970). What do we learn when we learn a language? TESOL Quarterly, 4, 303-

314.
Mackey, W.F. (1965). Language teaching analysis. Longman.

Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the theory of syntax. MIT Press.

Bachman, L.F., & Palmer, A.S. (1996). Language testing in practice. Oxford University

Press.