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BUS 350 - New Venture Creation

This guide is for John Clarke's Spring 2024 course.

Citing Census and other Data in APA

APA (7th edition)

Point readers to raw data by providing a Web address (use "Retrieved from") or a general place that houses data sets on the site (use "Available from").

General Format

Author/Rightsholder. (Year). Title of data set (Version number) [Description of form]. Retrieved from http://

Author/Rightsholder. (Year). Title of data set (Version number) [Description of form]. Location: Name of producer.

Examples

U.S. Census Bureau. (2017). Population Estimates, July 1, 2017 (V2017) -- Walla Walla city, WA [data table]. Quick Facts. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/wallawallacitywashington,US/

U.S. Census Bureau. (2016). Characteristics of People by Language Spoken at Home [data table for 2016].  2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (ZCTA5 99362). Retrieved from American FactFinder, https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_5YR_S1603

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2008). Indiana income limits [Data file]. Retrieved from http://www.huduser.org/Datasets/IL/IL08/in_fy2008.pdf

United Nations Statistics Division. (2008). Gender Info 2007. [Data file]. Retrieved from http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=GenderStat&f=inID%3a12

Economist Intelligence Unit. (2012). EIU CountryData. [Data file]. London: Economist Intelligence Unit.

This citation resource was provided by NYU Libraries, with additional example citations from the Whitman College Library.

Citing News sources in APA

APA (7th edition)

Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html

Harlan, C. (2013, April 2). North Korea vows to restart shuttered nuclear reactor that can make bomb-grade plutonium. The Washington Post, A1, A4.

Stobbe, M. (2020, January 8). Cancer death rate in U.S. sees largest one-year drop ever. Chicago Tribune.

 

  • Parenthetical citations: (Carey, 2019; Harlan, 2013; Stobbe, 2020)
  • Narrative citations: Carey (2019), Harlan (2013), and Stobbe (2020)

 

  • In the source element of the reference, provide at minimum the title of the newspaper in italic title case.
  • If the newspaper article is from an online newspaper that has a URL that will resolve for readers (as in the Carey example), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference. If volume, issue, and/or page numbers for the article are missing, omit these elements from the reference.
  • If you used a print version of the newspaper article (as in the Harlan example), provide the page or pages of the article after the newspaper title. Do not include the abbreviations “p.” or “pp.” before the page(s).
  • If the newspaper article is from an academic research database, provide the title of the newspaper and any volume, issue, and/or page numbers that are available for the article. Do not include database information in the reference. If the article does not have volume, issue, or page numbers available, the reference in this case ends with the title of the newspaper (as in the Stobbe example).
  • If the article is from a news website (e.g., CNN, HuffPost)—one that does not have an associated daily or weekly newspaper—use the format for a webpage on a news website instead.

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Citing Bloomberg Terminal info in APA

Template:
Author. (date). Title. Retrieved from URL

Example Citation:

Bloomberg L.P. (n.d.). [Amazon.com inc. quarterly financial statement analysis, 2016Q1 - 2018Q2 in USD] [Data set]. Retrieved March 15, 2018 from SFU Bloomberg terminal.

 

In-TextHow to cite in-text

Elements:

Click here for details on where to find these elements within the document.

AuthorBloomberg L.P.

Note: Corporate author. More details

Daten.d.

Note: Bloomberg does not provide a date when the data was last updated; in this case, just indicate that there is no date, but provide a date of retrieval. More details

Title[Amazon.com inc. quarterly financial statement analysis, 2016Q1 - 2018Q2 in USD]

Note: Sentence-style capitalization. In most cases, you will have to create a descriptive title containing key variables your reader would need to use to find the same resource. Include such a created title in square brackets, not italicized. Add the format in square brackets following the title. More details

URLhttps://www.bloomberg.com/company/

Note: Publisher's homepage URL; not the database URL. More details

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