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The following example uses the APA
format

for the journal citation.

NOTE: APA
requires double spacing within citations.

Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., &
Witsberger, C. (1986).

Nonfamily living and

the erosion of traditional family
orientations among young adults.
American Sociological Review,
51 (4), 541-554.

The authors, researchers at the Rand
Corporation and Brown University, use

data from
the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test


their hypothesis that nonfamily living by
young adults alters their attitudes,

values,
plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in

traditional sex roles. They find their
hypothesis strongly supported in young

females,
while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the


time away from parents before marrying
increased individualism,

self-sufficiency, and changes in
attitudes about families. In contrast, an

earlier
study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in


sex role attitudes as a result of
nonfamily living.