Bibliographic Citation Formats: APA Style

Helen Temple Cooke Library
Dana Hall School

 

BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR

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.

 

BOOK WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS

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.

 

BOOK WITH AN EDITOR OR A COLLETION OF AUTHORS

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. 

 

ARTICLE FROM A PRINT PERIODICAL

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.

 

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE PERIODICAL

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

 

ARTICLE FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE

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. 

 

WEBSITE

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  

 

WEBSITE WITH AN ACADEMIC AFFILIATION

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

 

EMAIL, INTERVIEWS, and other PERSONAL COMMUNICATION

 

Note: Personal communications are only cited in-text.  DO NOT include them in the reference list.

 

VIDEO

 

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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