Adolescence: Change and Continuity

How to give credit where credit is due

We hope you have found the information on this website helpful: we have worked hard to develop it over a number of years. If you use information from this site as a source for a paper you are writing, don't forget to give credit where credit is due! To see the American Psychological Association's guidelines for electronic publications, you can click here. In my best application of this form, I would suggest you cite information from this webiste like this:

Author of specific article (date). Title of specific article. Retrieved date of retreival from the Adolescence: Change and Continuity Web site. N. Darling (Ed.): URL.

The authors of all individual essays are written after the title of the specific article. The date of publication is listed at the very bottom of each individual webpage. The URL is the exact web address listed by your browser when you are viewing the article. For example:

To cite Nicola Levandoski's essay on Homeless Youth, in the section on Delinquency, you would write:

Levandoski, N. (2001). Homeless youth. Retrieved 3/15/02 from the Change and Continuity Web site. N. Darling (Ed.): http://www.personal.psu.edu/nxd10/adolesce.htm.

To cite Stacey Figg's essay on Puberty, in the section on Biological Change: Puberty, you would write:

Figgs, S. (2001). Puberty. Retreived 3/15/02 from the Change and Continuity Web site. N. Darling (Ed.): http://www.personal.psu.edu/nxd10/adolesce.htm.

Last updated 3/25/02.