APA
(American Psychological Association) method of citing sources in Social
Sciences is very common. Students are supposed to submit term papers at the end
of every semester and they are critically examined by the professors for
plagiarism and source detection. If you’re a student of any such field you must
have gone through the long hours of reviewing and writing researches and then
scratching your head in order to cite the sources according to the demanded
pattern of your professors. Here is a guide on how to cite the movies in your
papers with APA styling.
Firstly
understand the basics of APA. Citation & referencing is usually used for
books, journals and other published material. In that case author’s surname is
followed by year of publication, and sometimes the page number writer of the
research paper is referring too. These all are written in a bracket &
separated by a comma for example (Peter, 1990, pg#61). Learn this basic method
of citation and proceed further. When citing a movie, we use the dialogue in
inverted commas as a direct quote. This is similar to the use of a sentence
from any published source.
Director/Producer
name: In case of citing a movie you will have to use the surnames of
director/producer followed by the year your referenced movie was released. If
you want to clarify further, you can also add the name of the scene in place of
the page number (as done for books).
Movie name:
Another method used for in-text citation of movies is to use the name of the
movie and the year of release, for example (Titanic, 1997). This is
comparatively more convenient method of citing movies and will be clearer to
the reader as well.
Actors and
characters: You can also use the name of actor/character who has spoken the
dialogue if that is the reason of fame. In APA styling we must use the
reference as past tense so when quoting a dialogue write it as; Johnny Depp
stated ‘’not all treasure is silver and gold mate’’ (Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003)
Timestamp:
Timestamp is another very effective method that can be used to cite a movie or
any other visual material. In place of author name you just have to add the
timestamp along with the name of the movie/director/actor in APA style.
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