Any APA experts here?

[Thunderbroom]

I'm doing a qualitative study for my dissertation. As such I am gathering multiple sources of information in an effort to triangulate the data. I want to protect the identities of the sites I am visiting and of the participants in the study. If I use a document (say...board minutes) to accomplish, how would I cite it and still protect my sites/participants?

[beedlesw]

I have to use APA for a my psychology class this semester. I'm really good at MLA, but this APA crap is lame.

 

I would assume you'd just cite it as email or other personal communication. (personal communication, date)

 

but I don't know. I'm still just working on my associate's

[J the D]

The whole point of the referencing is to identify the specific document you are referencing which is impossible to do without identifying where it came from. You need to get releases from the author(s) of your references and cite them.

[Thunderbroom]

Got the answer from my chair. Essentially you assign synonyms to the references which may identify those you wish to protect and then maintain a clear audit trail.

[J the D]

Voila!

 

I'd forgotten the specifics but remembered the necessity for the paper trail.

[infralife]

[darreno27]

Good ol APA. I've been using it for years (In my 2nd year of grad school for educational psychology). This is an interesting scenario, but I think you should be good from what you chair told you.

[willsellout]

I use programs which auto cite things. I used APA Perrla for a while. Now I use word scholar because my current class requires MLA.

[lokidecat]

I use Son of Citation Machine.

 

Google it, it rocks.