Writing Assignment 2: Creating a bibliography in APA formatAcademic publications contain references. References are previously published works (e.g. books, book chapters, peer-review journal articles, websites). Students need to learn how to create a bibliography using APA format gathering information location online only.

Students are to use books, book chapters, journal articles, and websites only. Websites must only be cited from professional sources, such as those ending in .gov (for ‘government’) or .ca (for ‘California’ – other state abbreviations are also valid), or .lacity or .lacounty (for ‘Los Angeles City’ and ‘Los Angeles County’ – other city/county websites are also valid). Websites of national organizations in the fields related to violence, crime, drugs, and mental health are also valid, such as those related to the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Justice, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), and others

APA is a particular style. Students must pay close attention to every single formatting issue, such as capitalization, italics, commas, indenting periods, and brackets. APA stands for American Psychological Association.

Objective: Students are to choose three types of crime or issues related to crime that they are interested in.

My three interests, for instance, would be gangs, drugs, chid abuse.

Students are then to create a bibliography containing at least 20 references in total related to these topics. Half of these references must be from academic journal articles; the remainder can be books, book chapters, data sets, websites, and/or government or local agencies.

Note: Go to Google Scholar to locate information from academic journal articles, books, and book chapters. [see ‘Using Google Scholar and Locating References’ video].APA FormatBelow are examples of how to format various references in APA format. Please note that a generic example is followed by a specific one.