I need help to organize these references into APA style references? I know some of them are not needed.?
References for psych paper
(Bill Allin, cause and cures for today’s epidemic social problems, http://billallin.com).
The article, C’Mon get happy (Marnell Jameson. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 8, 2008. pg
Douglas in the October 2008 Douglas Report.
Ed Diener, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, who began studying happiness in 1981 say “critics said you can’t study happiness because you can’t measure it.”
The Journal of Positive Psychology and the Journal of Happiness Studies as well as its own professional organization, which Diener started last year called The International Positive Psychology Association for academics and scholars.
The journal or Psychosomatic Medicine by Carnegie Mellon, a University Psychology Professor Sheldon Cohen says happy people who are optimistic about life live healthier lives with fewer illnesses
S. JOSEPH, University of Warwick, Depression-Happiness Scale (McGreal & Joseph, 1993; Joseph & Lewis, 1998), Happiness Studies (446 in 1962, 458 in 1963, and 458-S in 1962), resulted in the publications Reports on Happiness by Norman M. Bradburn and David Caplovitz (1965) and The Structure of Psychological Well-Being by Bradburn (1969). The Affect Balance Scale was developed by Norman M. Bradburn as part of surveys conducted by him at NORC during the 1960s to measure psychological well-being. The ABS is described at length and reproduced in Chap. 4 of The Structure of Psychological Well-Being (1969).
Professor Jerry Rudmann at Irvine Valley College.
Seligman, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Positive Psychology Center there says, “The books are coming out because the science is coming out.”
This growing trend shows no signs of slowing. Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at UC Riverside and author of “The How of Happiness:
IF there is no date I can use todays day or todays download date?
RH said,
Wrote on April 20, 2010 @ 3:56 am
Define the type of sources these points are from and APA will have a specific rule for that type of source. Then you will need all the components to complete the reference, and they don’t all need the same details. For the formats :
If you can’t get a copy of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001) to see all the examples starting on page 239, then maybe this one will get you started. It also includes the 2007 updates for e-resources A lot of people on this blog are using it :
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
The update might be in your library’s online catalogue under “APA guide to electronic references” or check your course sites for it. You can read it online but not freely, so your library would have had to buy it for their students for you to read it.
So what type of item are your sources –
Bill Allin – unless you bought and read the e book, then you are referencing a garden variety web site (in APA terms, I’m sure Bill doesn’t think of it that way!)
Newspaper article – got a page for that if print, or was it online?
Is your Douglas report an online periodical/journal?
You’ll need a specific source for your Diener quote, as well as for the journals you mention (that is, they are usually referenced at journal article level)
Same with Cohen – journal article I assume – print or e-version?
Heaps in the big para. Google could be a quick way of getting all the details you need for each reference.
In what type of source did you read the Rudmann and Lyubomirsky opinions?
Why wouldn’t some of them be needed? They all sound really interesting. Great topic, go positive psych!
You need both the publication date and retrieval (today’s) date. If you don’t have the publication date you will need to replace it with (n.d.).
Best,
RH
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