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The information on this page is meant to help you properly cite common forms of information resources. However, this page is not an exhaustive list, nor is it guaranteed to be accurate or in accordance with professor or publication expectations. For these purposes, it always best to use the full citation manual for the appropriate style. If you have questions about these citations or if you would like to use the full manual for one of these styles, please contact the Reference Department.

Citing using APA style

Book

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.

Edited book

Author, A. A. & Author B. B. (Eds.). (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle.

Location: Publisher.

Part of a edited book

Author, A. A. & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In A. A. Editor (Ed.), Title of book:

Subtitle if available (pp. page-range). Location: Publisher.

Journal article - print version

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of periodical, volume number,

pages. (used for journals that paginate by volume)

Author, A. A. & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Title of periodical, volume number (issue number),

pages. (used for journals that paginate by issue)

Journal article - online version (mostly from publisher sites, e.g. Sage, Wiley, ScienceDirect, Blackwell, Nature, etc.)

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of periodical, volume number,

pages. Retrieved month day, year, from http://www.thejournal.com/full/url/

Journal Article - online journal collection or database (e.g. EBSCO, OVID)

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of periodical, volume number,

pages. Retrieved month day, year, from CINAHL with Full Text database.

For more detailed information, view the updated APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources (Lotus Notes account required) 

More Resources

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (book)

The world's easiest guide to using the APA (book)

Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format from Purdue University
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html 

APA Style for Electronic References
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html 

"Developing bibliographies: Citing in APA style" from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (PDF)
http://library.unomaha.edu/research/aids/library_guides/CitingInAPAStyle.pdf