Citing Books
(Works
cited lists, or bibliographies, are organized alphabetically by the
author’s last name. If there is no author given, the entry
is made under the first significant word in the title -- excluding
"a," "an," or "the.")
A) Single author
Author's name. (Date of publication). Book title. Place of Publication: Publisher.
B) Two or more authors
Authors' names should be listed in the order they are found on the title
page. Only the first author's name
should be reversed.
Li, X. & N. B. Crane. (1993). Electronic style: A guide
to citing electronic information. Westport, CT: Meckler.
Messner, S. F. & Rosenfeld, R.. (1997). Crime and the
American dream. (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
Gilman, S., King, H., Porter, R., Rousseau, G. & Showalter, E. (1993). Hysteria Beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P.
C) Corporate Author, Group Author (government agency) as publisher
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (1971).
Alcohol and Health. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
D) Article or Chapter in an edited work
Massaro, D. (1992). Broadening the domain of the fuzzy logical model of perception. In H. L. Pick, Jr. , P. van den Broek, & D. Knill (Eds.), Cognition: Conceptual and
methodological issues (pp. 51-84). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
E) Articles in Encyclopedias.
O'Brian, D. M. (1996). Law. In World Book. (Vol. 12. pp. 130-140). Chicago: World Book, Inc.
Citing Periodical Articles
A) Journal articles
For articles in journals, publication information includes a volume
number, as well as the year of
publication and the page numbers on which the article appears.
Article Author(s). (Date of Publication). Article title. Periodical title and publication information. Pages.
[Capitalize
only first word of article title and subtitle, if any, and proper
names. Do not underline or place quotations around it.]
One
Author:
Scotto, P. (1994). Censorship, Reading and Interpretation: A Case Study from the Soviet Union. PMLA. 109 61-70.
Two
Authors:
Kirmayer, L. J. & A. Young. (1999). Culture and context in the evolutionary concept of mental disorder. Journal of
Abnormal Psychology 108 (3), 446-452.
Three
to five authors:
Reinharz, H. Z. , Gianconia, R. M., Carmola Hauf, A. M., Wasserman, M. S., & Silverman, A. B. (1999). Major depression in the transition to adulthood: Risks and Impairments. Journal
of Abnormal Psychology 108 (3), 500-510.
B) Newspaper articles
No
Author
Alphabetize
works with no author by the first significant word in the title
(not "the" or "a").
Precede
page numbers for newspaper articles with "p." or "pp."
New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart failure. (1993, July 15). The Washington Post, p. A12.
Discontinuous
Pages
Feder, B. J. (1993, December 30). For Job Seekers, a Toll-Free Gift of Expert Advice. New York Times , natl. ed.,
pp. C1, C4.
C) Magazine articles
Give the date shown on the publication -- month for monthlies
or month and day for weeklies -- and the volume number.
Posner, M. I. (1993, October 29). Seeing the mind. Science, 262, 673-674.
*Information
taken from:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
. (5th ed.).
(2001).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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