A1C is a lab test that shows the average level of blood sugar (glucose) over the previous 3 months. It shows how well you are controlling your diabetes.
APA guidelines stipulate rules for punctuation, tables, headings, statistics and citations. Citing your sources according to APA style helps you avoid plagiarism and boost your paper's credibility. When you cite or mention a book in a paper, you should italicize the title. Citations of books in your Reference List should begin with the last name of the book's author, then the author's initials.
In-text citation capitalization, quotes, and italics/underlining. 1  Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones. 2  If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change.f the author is not named in a signal phrase, place the author's last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation. She stated, Students often had difficulty using APA style (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.