Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Slides
Lecture Notes and PowerPoint Slides
Information from in-class lecture notes and PowerPoint slides should be cited. Some instructors will tell you not to cite these sources; follow their directions. If you are not told to omit lectures notes and PowerPoint slides from the reference list, cite them using the format below.
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Reference List Entry: Format (10.14)
Instructor, I. (Date). Title of presentation [Description]. Department, Institution. URL if applicable.
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Hint! If the slides come from a class website, a classroom management system like Canvas, or a site like SlideShare, provide the name of the site and the URL.
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Remember! An author is the person or people, or the group responsible for creating the work being cited. In the case of PowerPoint slides or lecture notes, the instructor is the person responsible for the information.
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Reference List Entry: Example
Smith, K. (2019). Mental health nursing and patient care [PowerPoint]. Practical Nursing Program, Loyalist College.
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Hint! The description does not need to be complication. Something as simple as, [PowerPoint] or [PowerPoint presentation] is acceptable.
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Parenthetical Citation
(Instructor, Date, Slide number), e.g.: (Smith, 2019, Slide 3)
Narrative Citation
Instructor (Date, Slide number), e.g.: Smith (2019, Slide 3)
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Sources
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association: The official guide to APA style. (7th ed.).
Citing is the process of acknowledging the sources of information and ideas. This takes the form of a citation. Citations must include specific pieces of information and must follow a consistent format. There are two parts of a citation – the in-text citation, and the reference list entry.
Resources, sometimes called sources, are sources of information; this is where information is found when conducting research. This can sometimes lead to confusion, because one of the pieces of information in a reference list entry is also called a source.
A reference list appears at the end of an assignment or essay, and it contains all of the reference list entries for information resources used for that assignment or essay.
In an APA Style citation, the author is the person or people, or the group responsible for creating the work. An author can be a single person, multiple people, a group like an institution or a government agency, or a combination of individuals and groups.
In an APA Style citation, the date refers to the date of publication.
In an APA Style in-text citation or reference list entry, the title refers to the name of the work being cited.
In an APA Style citation, the source refers to where the information was found. The source includes - but is not limited to - the names of publishers, URLs and DOIs.
