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Citing Sources
APA Style*


Books :

No author
Single author
Two or more authors
Corporate/Group Author
Article or Chapter in an edited work
Encyclopedia articles

Periodical Articles :

Journal Articles
Newspaper Articles
Magazine Articles

Electronic Formats ( Links to Style Guides):

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association

PSYCHOLOGY WITH STYLE:  A Hypertext Writing Guide

Citing Electronic Resources Using APA Style

Infotrac or Proquest Articles


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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