Social Work

Citing Using APA Style

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Check with your instructor to verify that you can use a previous paper or assignment as this should be used only with explicit permission. If you are permitted to quote or paraphrase from earlier work, you should cite to the work, following the unpublished work template (Section 10.8, p. 336). You can change “Unpublished manuscript” to “Unpublished paper” or another phrase.

Reference Page General Format

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the work [Unpublished paper]. Department Name, University Name.

Reference Page Example

Fisher, J. D. (2021). This is the title of my paper [Unpublished paper]. Social Work Department, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.

In-Text Example

(Fisher, 2021)