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Copyright Attribution Statements

All copyrighted material that you use in your thesis must include an expanded citation. The 7th Edition of the APA manual outlines the suggested wording for this citation in section 12.18. If the copyright holder has asked you to use specific wording, then use that rather than the wording outlined in the APA manual.

Parts of a Copyright Attribution Statement

Reprinted/Adapted Status

From

OR

Adapted from

Source Information APA Citation (see page 390 of APA Manual for all examples)
Copyright Status

[Copyright year] by [Copyright name holder]

OR

In the public domain.

OR

CC-BY-NC

Permission Statement

Reprinted with permission.

OR

Adapted with permission.

 

Examples

Adapted from Crews, K. D. (2013). Copyright and your dissertation or thesis: Ownership, fair use, and your rights and responsibilities (p.20), by K.D. Crews, 2013, ProQuest (https://grad.tamu.edu/getmedia/9e36e009-416e-4002-8768-4f37a2bf2986/copyright_dissthesis_ownership.pdf). CC-BY-NC. Adapted with permission.

From "Technical requirements for copyright protection of electronic theses and dissertations in INSTD: A grounded theory study." by Z. Papi, S.R. Sharifabdi, et al., 2017, The Electronic Library, 35(1), 32 (https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-11-2015-0226). ©2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. Reprinted with permission.

Creative Commons Attribution Statement

CreativeCommons.org suggests the following attribution of material used under a Creative Commons Licence:

"Name of the Work" by "Author" is licensed under "CC BY 2.0"