Bibliographic Citation Formats: APA Style
Helen Temple
Cooke Library
Dana Hall School
Last
Name, First Initial. (Year of
publication). Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Anderson,
A. (1995). The secret life of Pocahontas. New York: Macmillian.
Note:
The title of the book should only have the first word and proper nouns
capitalized.
Last Name, First Initial,
& Last Name, First Initial. (Year of publication). Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
McDonald, E. & Giovanni,
D. (1993). A history of independent schools. Boston: Little Brown.
Note:
For three or more authors, you may use et al. instead of the names of subsequent
authors.
Krech,
D. et al. (1974). Elements of psychology. New York:
Knopf.
Last Name, First Initial.
(Ed.). (Year of publication). Title. City of Publication:
Publisher.
Change, L. (Ed.).
(1994). O.J. Simpson: Reviews and reactions. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston.
ARTICLE
FROM A PRINT REFERENCE BOOK (like an encyclopedia)
Last Name, First Initial.
(Year of publication). Title of entry.
In Title of book. (Vol.,
pp.). City of publication:
Publisher.
Lopez, J. & Smith,
T. (Ed.). (1993). Ballroom
dancing. In World book encyclopedia.
(Vol. 2, p. 63). Chicago: World Book
International.
National Geographic
Society. (2001). Europe.
In Student Atlas of the World (pp. 66-75). Washington, DC: National Geographic
Society.
Last Name, First
Initial. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of journal, volume(issue), pages.
Mellers, B. A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of
consequences. Psychological Bulletin,
126, 184-194.
Ginsberg,
R. B. (1994, July 15). How I became a supreme court justice. Time, 80-85.
Kilmoski, R., & Palmer,
S. (1993). The ADA and the hiring process in organizations. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 910-924.
Last Name, First
Initial. (Date of publication). Title of article [Electronic version]. Title of journal, volume(issue),
pages. Retrieved date, from URL.
Adams, R. (1998, September/October). Staying with it: Three cases of teenage
vegetarianism [Electronic version]. Vegetarian
journal, 4(17), pp. 19-24. Retrieved August 12, 2002 from
http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj98sep/989teen.htm
Last Name, First
Initial. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of journal, volume(issue), pages. Retrieved
date, from database name.
Megee, M. (1997, September). Students need media literary: The new basic. Education digest, 31-35. Retrieved November 22, 1998 from Academic Abstracts
FullTEXT Ultra.
Last Name, First Initial. (Date
of publication or copyright). Title
of page. Retrieved date, from
URL
Marlham, G. (1999). Home
page. Retrieved August 3, 2002 from
http://www.marlham.net
Last Name, First Initial. (Date
of publication or copyright). Title
of page. Retrieved date, from
university affiliation: URL
Crane, G. (Ed.). (1998, November 12). The Perseus project. Retrieved November 22, 1998 from Tufts
University, Classics Department: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Note: Personal communications are only cited
in-text. DO NOT include them in the
reference list.
Last Name, First Initial. (Role
in production of film). (Year of
release). Title [Motion
picture]. Country of origin: movie
studio.
Armstrong, G. (Director). (1995). Little women [Motion picture]. United
States: Columbia Tristar Home Video.
For
forms other than those listed here, check the Publication manual of the
American Psychological Association.
Otherwise, use the format closest to your type of source; always provide
more, rather than less, information.
All
references followed the formats suggested in:
American
Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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