Babble, blather, talk and trouble: APA Citations

Babble, blather, talk and trouble; 
First you put a capital letter and Author's Surname
Then a period and capital first and middle initial,
Follow with a comma, then open a parenthesis
Type the four numbers for the year of our Lord;
Close the parenthesis.
Don't forget the period. It ends the beginning.
Type the title capitalizing only the first word,
but add another capital after a colon or dash.
Add a period. Italicize. Capitalize
like you have learned for the name of the journal
Keep the italics for the volume
Open a parenthesis and type the issue number
Close the parenthesis and add a comma
Type the page numbers with no p. and use a dash between
End with a period. Oh, I forgot the spacing,
Let's begin again.

Babble, blather, talk and trouble;
Read me thirty slides like these,
Cool it with monotone at 4:30 pm,
Then the subject's bored and dead:
There's no magic here.