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APA STYLE FOR CITING PRINT SOURCES

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) is the standard writing guide for psychology and other
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disciplines in the social sciences. The information in this guide is taken from the Publication manual, 6  edition, but is not exhaustive;
if you don’t find the information and/or examples you need here, consult the full manual at the reference desk, 808.06615 P976 2010.
ALSO: The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University has created a very good guide (with many examples) to the APA style.
You can access it at: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

Parenthetical Citation

In the text of your paper, you must document sources from which you are quoting or paraphrasing using brief parenthetical citations
that correspond to your alphabetical list of references at the end of the paper. For direct quotations, include the author, date, and page
number. Note: If a work has no author, you must use the title for the in­text citation. If you are paraphrasing an idea from a work, the
APA guidelines do not require a page number although you are encouraged to include it.

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Integrating the author’s name into a sentence: Walker (2000) compared reaction times . . . (p. 145)
Including the author’s name in a parenthetical citation: In a recent study of reaction times (Walker, 2000, p. 145) . . .

For
and is used in the text while & is used in the parenthetical citation and in the Reference List.
Examples: As Nightlinger and Littlewood (1993) demonstrated . . . OR, As has been shown (Nightlinger & Littlewood, 1989) . . .
For works with more than 2 authors or with corporate authors, refer to the Publication Manual, section 6.12.

The alphabetical list of references appears at the end of the paper. Each reference in your list must be cited in the text of your paper
and each citation in your paper must be included in your reference list. Center the title, References (Reference, if there is only one) at
the top of the page. Double­space all reference entries and double­space between the title and the first reference in the list. Begin each
entry flush with the left margin; if an entry runs more than one line, indent the subsequent line(s).

For the reference list, in titles of books and periodical articles, capitalize only the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper
nouns; in titles of periodicals (e.g., journals, magazines, newspapers), capitalize each significant word of the title. Give the name of
the publisher in as brief a form as is understandable, omitting unnecessary words, such as Publishers, Co., and Inc., but retaining the
words Books and Press. See examples below.

Citing a Book with an Author(s) or Editor(s):

Author/Editor's Last Name, Author/Editor’s Initial(s). (Ed. or Eds. if edited book with no author) (Publication

year). Title [in italics] (Edition ­ if given). Place of publication: Publisher.

Iyengar, S.

Galvin, K. M., & Cooper, P. J. (Eds.). (2006). Making connections: Readings in relational communication (4th

ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

Wolfe, D. A., Jaffe, P. G., & Crooks, C. V. (2006). Adolescent risk behaviors: Why teens experiment and

strategies to

Citing an Edited Book that also has an Author(s):

Author’s Last Name, Author’s Initial(s). (Publication year). Title [in italics]. (Editor’s Initials, Editor’s Last

Name, Ed.). Place of publication: Publisher.

Plath, S. (2000). Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950­1962. (K. V. Kukil, Ed.). New York, NY: Anchor.

Citing a Book with no Author or Editor:

Title [in italics] (Edition ­ if given). (Publication year). Place of publication: Publisher.

Merriam­Webster's collegiate

Citing an Entry from a Multi­Volume Work, such as an Encyclopedia:

Author

Name (Ed.) ­ if given, Title of encyclopedia or other multi­volume work [in italics]. (Edition ­ if given,

Volume

Huang, J. S., & Patrick, K. (2008). Child obesity programs. In K. Keller (Ed.), Encyclopedia of obesity. (Vol.

1, pp. 136­139). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Psychosurgery. (2004). In Encyclopedia americana. (International ed., Vol. 22, p. 733). Danbury, CT:

Scholastic Library.

Citing an Article or Chapter in an Edited Book:

Author of

and Last Name (Ed.), Title [in italics] (pages of chapter). Place of publication: Publisher.

Burke, R. J. (2006). Workaholism. In T. G. Plante (Ed.), Mental disorders of the new millennium (pp. 171­192).

Westport, CT: Praeger.

Citing a Book with a Corporate Author:

Corporate author. (Publication year). Title [in italics] (Edition – if given). Place of publication: Publisher.

American Psychological Association. (2001). Thesaurus of psychological index terms (9th ed.). Washington,

DC: Author.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. (2008). Occupational outlook handbook, 2008­

2009. (Library Ed.). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Note: When the author and publisher are identical, use the word Author as the name of the publisher; see first example.

Citing a Scholarly Journal or Popular Magazine Article:

Author’s Last Name, Author’s Initial(s). (Publication year, Month and day – if given for magazines). Title of

article. Title of Journal or Magazine [in italics], volume number [in italics], (issue number for journals or

magazines paginated by issue), pages.

Fata, C. (2009, May­June). Double heartbreak: Do mental scars deserve military decoration? Psychology

Today, 42(3), 26.

Morgan, G. S., Wisneski, D. C., & Skitka, L. J. (2011). The expulsion from disneyland: The social

psychological impact of 9/11. American Psychologist, 66(6), 447­447­454.

Author of article’s Last Name, Initial(s). (Publication year, Month and day­ if given). Title of article. Title of

newspaper [in italics], pages [if not continuous, give all page numbers separated by a comma].

Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.