Structured Bibliography
Your bibliography should provide for easy use by the reader/reviewer. To achieve this you should always label it "Bibliography".
Second, I prefer to see an identification mark to show that resources originate from instructional material. This can occur at the very end of an entry. The mark should be "(course material)".
Next, if you use different types of material in the bibliography, you should group them and separately label each group (within the larger domain of the bibliography heading). Following are the recommended headings of material that I anticipate you might use (these may differ by course). Use of these subheadings may be required in course instruction. This requirement differs from standard APA citation criteria:
Peer Reviewed
Second, I prefer to see an identification mark to show that resources originate from instructional material. This can occur at the very end of an entry. The mark should be "(course material)".
Next, if you use different types of material in the bibliography, you should group them and separately label each group (within the larger domain of the bibliography heading). Following are the recommended headings of material that I anticipate you might use (these may differ by course). Use of these subheadings may be required in course instruction. This requirement differs from standard APA citation criteria:
Peer Reviewed
- In this section you should list only material from peer reviewed journal articles.
- As with standard APA, the section should be alphabetized by first author last name.
- Follow all other APA guidance.
- In addition, provide any URL that is associated with your source.
- List the books you have used
- Follow APA guidance.
- List the websites you have used by a name (further discussed below)
- All internet sources must have a specific URL (general URLs such as census.gov are inadequate, you must use the URL where you find the information).
- If you have enough information to list items as peer reviewed or books, include them in those sections, not in this one, but include any relevant URL material in the citation.
- If you access academic sources such as ResearchGate.com, Academia.com, SSRN.com, AcademicWorks.CUNY.edu or any other similar site, you may list an item as peer reviewed ONLY if you are able to identify the journal, issue, and page numbers where the item was originally published. Otherwise, it is an internet source.
- Material from governmental web sources are Internet Sources except where a journal is listed.
- Material found through library searches are internet sources except where you are able to identify the journal for the APA citation.
- Websites should be listed by a title. If no title is available, the page should be identified by the first sentence or group of words on the web page.
- Material obtained by using a web based database, should be listed by the title of the web page on which the database is accessed. You should record each choice made in order to use the database so that a reader or reviewer can recreate the same database output.
- PDF downloads may be identified with the title of the PDF, the URL should be a direct link to the PDF or, if that is not possible, a link to the page on which the PDF is accessed.
- APA has further guidance on how to cite a web page.
- In this section include any newspapers, news magazines, trade journals, popular magazines, or any other text material that does not meet the specific criteria of the first three sections.
- Follow APA guidance
- Include URLs where relevant.
- In this section list films by director (date) Title
- In this section list television shows by director (broadcast date, if available) Title
- List any other media, art objects, photographs, or materials that may not fit any previous category.
- Provide the artist, creator, or other identity material as you would an author.
- Include a title or identifying name.
- Provide any information that might provide for viewing the material, such as a museum or a website URL.