Sample APA Annotated Bibliography With Instructions

APA means American Psychological Association and often refers to the style of documentation adopted by that professional group, a style that features the date of publication more prominently than other forms of documentation. See the Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook (pp. 652-679***) and the PowerPoint presentation on APA under the Research Writing Resources in the Web Resources section of the ENC 1135 on-line syllabus for details. Since annotated means enhanced or clarified with notes, an annotated bibliography is a list of sources presented with comments on content and usefulness to the research under way. The list must be presented in alphabetical order by the author’s last name or the first word of the title (for a resource that shows no author), regardless of form of the source; that is book, journal, Internet page, and CD-ROM—with author(s) or without Sources—all appear together on one list. Do not number the entries on the References list. The forms for the electronic resources appear accurately and carefully on the Learning Resources pages of the IRCC site, or you may pick up the printed “Documenting Electronic Resources APA STYLE” at the Ft. Pierce campus library and at the sites. Carefully note that the title of an APA bibliography is “References.” All items on the sample list below are pure fiction, as are all comments; they are offered to provide example of proper form. A 750-1000 word APA must have at least three sources, while a 1250-1500 word APA must have at least five sources; to choose the most useful and best sources, a researcher looks in three to five sources for every ONE he uses. That means that the list of five with comments that you turn in to me will represent a review of a minimum of fifteen sources. The five on the annotated bibliography will be five that you can, and likely will, use in your paper.
***PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FORMATTING FOR THE THESIS AND OPENING OF THE APA PAPER IN THE HARBRACE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF UPPER DIVISION AND GRADUATE SCHOOL PAPERS.
THEREFORE, EXAMINE CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES FOR THE THESIS AND OPENING OFFERED IN THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AND SAMPLE APA PAPER OFFERED ON THE SAME SUBPAGE AS THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY.
References

AIDS and women (2004). In Physicians’ Desk Reference. Retrieved January 3, 2006, from Physicians’ Desk Reference database.
This medical resource entry covers both the symptoms and pathology of the active AIDS virus in women and a sequence of charts that map the spread of the disease continent by continent since its identification in the early 80’s. This information will significantly strengthen my paper’s argument that overlooking or concentrating less on AIDS in women can have devastating social and medical consequences.
Alberts, J. L. (2003, February 18). Adolescent girls and AIDS. Retrieved January 2, 2006, from http://www.aidscenteron-line/jersey/girls.html
This study relies on interviews of more than thirty young, New Jersey women who came to any one of the three free clinics in a small suburb for blood testing to see if they had aids. The review has less in the way of useful statistics than it has in case study information on how the women feel which they think they might have AIDS. Some quotes might be useful to exhibit emotional effects.
Battlebort, K.T., & Zonheven, O.O. (2004). Girls don’t get AIDS, do they? In Studies in Sociology: The Problem of AIDS. Retrieved January 3, 2006, from Electric Library database.
This article appears among a series of articles published in the Studies in Sociology collection on The Problem of Aids, this review addresses the nature of the misunderstanding about heterosexual behavior and the instance of AIDS. It shows specifically that younger sexually active teens believe themselves to be insulated against AIDS and other STDs as long as they are not gay.
Isringham, E. C. (2005). Just what do we do when girls get AIDS? Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, 13-14. Retrieved January 2, 2006 from Health and Wellness Resource database.
Addressing the issue of parental response to young women who find themselves facing AIDS, this study clearly speaks to the reasons why young women often delay seeking medical attention. Several graphs and charts that make the numbers of the study meaningful supplement the article’s commentary. A researcher can easily see how many more young women are likely to be affected by AIDS than are in treatment.

Jessup, J. J. (2005, March 7). AIDS, women and the truth. Redbook, 367(3), 97ff. Retrieved April 3, 2005, from SIRS Researcher database.
(The use of “ff” in this entry means “and following. Such an abbreviation works for situations in which an article begins on one page but continues not on the next and sequentially succeeding pages but on several pages that are not sequential, a common practice in magazines. Also, the volume number is underlined like the magazine title, but the issue number appears in parentheses next to the volume number).
Jessup’s study involved gathering information about the responses of professionally trained/certified school medical and counseling support personnel to women who came to them with questions about AIDS. For the purposes of the study, the women did not have to confirm that they were infected, and their identities were kept secret. Both the young women and the nurses and/or counselors they went to were interviewed and were given questionnaires. The study offers insights into the reluctance of young women to consult health professionals about their concerns with sexual activity, sexual diseases, and unwanted pregnancy.
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In order, the items in the sample bibliography with annotations given above are 1. an online encyclopedic reference 2. a booklet or pamphlet posted to the Internet 3. a full-text book on-line in the Electric Library 4. a full-text article Health and Wellness Resource database 5. a magazine article from a database within First Search
You are IN NO WAY limited to use of these kinds of sources. Use ERIC (Education Resources Information Center); use any database to which IRCC’s library gives you access. You must have a valid IRCC library bar code to use these databases. You may also use any information available from GPO (Government Printing Office), from the IPL (Internet Public Library), or from NPR (National Public Library) source. Also, you may use anything else you can find—pamphlet, interview notes, whatever—that seems trustworthy because its content has a “last updated” or copyright date, identifies a “contact us” or offers the name and e-mail address of the site manager, and offers an electronic and/or print bibliography. No matter what kind of resources you choose to use, document intelligently and carefully and make your commentary clear in its expression of the nature of the individual source’s content and how it might be useful in your paper.