Citing Sources: APA Style

BOOKS

Example
Lastname, Initial. (Year). Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher.

Single author
Howard, B. (1976). Boston, a social history. New York: Hawthorn Books.

Two or three authors
Gilbert, S. M., & Gubar, S. (1979). The madwoman in the attic: The woman writer and the nineteenth-century
      literary imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Editor or compiler as author
Monson, I. (Ed.). (2000). The African diaspora: A musical perspective. New York: Garland.

Article or chapter in a book
Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger &
      F. I. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory & consciousness (pp. 309-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

PERIODICALS

Example
Lastname, Initial. (Date). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Volume, Pages.

Article in a scholarly journal
Strecher, M. C. (1998) Beyond ‘Pure’ literature: Mimesis, formula, and the postmodern in the fiction of
      Murakami Haruki. Journal of Asian Studies, 57(2), 354-378.
            NOTE: Issue number is included only if each issue begins on page 1.

Entire issue or special section of a journal
Barlow, D. H. (Ed.) (2006). Diagnoses, dimensions, and DSM-IV: The science of classification
      [Special issue]. Journal of Unusual Psychology, 235(3).

Article in a newspaper
Hall, C. (2002, August 18). Reliving the 1200’s with sweat, muscle, and no-tech tools. New York Times, p. B27.

Article in a popular magazine
Lacayo, R. (2002, Sept. 23). Kids are us! Time, 160, 68-70.

Periodical published annually
Fisk, C. (1978). Social cognition and social perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 44, 168-197.

 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

When listing a web site on your works consulted page, it may be difficult to find all the information for a full citation. The most important citation parts are the URL and the date you accessed the page. Although individual authors may publish information on a web site, you will often find web resources created by an institution or organization as shown in the examples below.

 

WORLD WIDE WEB

Example
Lastname, Initial. (Date). Title of work. Retrieved month day, year, from web site address.

Tufts University Archives and Special Collections. (1999). Women’s bodies, women’s property: German
      common law books in the fourteenth century. Retrieved September 30, 2003 from Tufts University Digital Collections
      and Archives web site: http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/archives/Exhibits/Law/index.html

 

ARTICLE FROM A LIBRARY DATABASE BASED ON A PRINT SOURCE

Example
Lastname, Initial. (Date). Title of article [Electronic version]. Title of Periodical, Volume, Pages.

Lane, P.J. (2001). The existential condition of television crime drama [Electronic version]. Journal of Popular Culture 23, 56-73.

 

ARTICLE FROM A WEB-ONLY JOURNAL

Example
Lastname, Initial. (Date). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Volume, Pages. Retrieved month day, year, from web site address.

Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article 0001a.
      Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html

 

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