APA Documentation Style

APA Basic Reference Format

Books

Articles

Media

Internet

Books

Note:
All references should be double-spaced.

Book by a single author
Gregory, S. (1998). Black corona: Race and the politics of place in an urban community. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Book by two to six authors
Hamilton, B., & Guidos, B. (1987). The Medical Word Finder: A Reverse Medical Dictionary. New York: Neal.
Book by seven or more authors
Wong, D. L., Hockenberry-Eaton, M., Wilson, D., Winkelstein, M. L., Ahmann, E., DiVito-Thomas, P. A., et al. (1999). Whaley & Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children (6th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.
Book by a corporate author
American Medical Association. (1998). Essential Guide to Asthma. New York: Pocket Books.
Book with no author
Cooking with Vegetables. (1983). New York: Oxmoor.
Book by an editor
Allison, N. (Ed.). (1999). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-mind Disciplines. New York: Rosen.
Translation
Allende, I. (1989). Eva Luna (M.S. Peden, Trans.). New York: Bantam.
Edition
SarDesai, D. R. (1998). Vietnam: Past and Present (3rd ed.). Boulder: Westview.
Book with author and editor
Shakespeare, W. (1982). Hamlet (H. Jenkins, Ed.). London: Methuen.
Multivolume work
Jordan, W. C. (Ed.). (1996). The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students (Vols. 1-4). New York: Scribner.
Book in a series
Heisler, M. O., & Heisler, B. S. (1986). From Foreign Workers to Settlers?: Transnational Migration and the Emergence of New Minorities. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 485. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Work in an anthology
Chopin, K. (1996). The Awakening. In G.M. Gilbert & S. Gubar (Comps.). The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (2nd ed., pp. 1011-1101). New York: Norton.
Excerpt from an article, reprinted in an anthology
Fiedler, L. A. (1950, October). William Faulkner: An American Dickens. Commentary, 10, 384-387. (Excerpted and reprinted in Short story criticism, Vol. 1, p. 151, by L. L. Harris & S. Fitzgerald, ;Eds., 1988, Detroit: Gale).
Excerpt from a book, reprinted in an anthology
West, R. B. (1973). Atmosphere and theme in Faulkner's 'A rose for Emily.' In L.W. Wagner, (Ed.),William Faulkner: Four decades of criticism (pp. 192-198). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. (Excerpted and reprinted in Short story criticism , Vol. 1, pp. 148-151, by L. L. Harris and S. Fitzgerald Eds., 1988, Detroit: Gale).
Signed article in an encyclopedia
Cleland, H. G. (1998). Child Labor. In The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 6, pp. 460-463). Danbury, CT: Grolier.
Unsigned article in an encyclopedia
Mayflower. (1998). In The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 18, p.548). Danbury, CT: Grolier.
Government document
National Cancer Institute. Tobacco Research Implementation Group. (1998). Tobacco Research Implementation Plan: Priorities for Tobacco Research Beyond the Year 2000 (NCI 99-06720). Bethesda, MD: Author.
Pamphlet
Treat a pamphlet as you would a book.

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Articles

Article in a scholarly journal with continuous pagination
Bulliet, R. W. (1999). Twenty years of Islamic politics. Middle East Journal, 53, 189-2000.
Article in a scholarly journal paginated by issue
Haynes, G. W., & Haynes, D. C. (1999). Debt structure of small businesses owned by women in 1987 and 1993. Journal of Small Business Management, 37(2), 1-19.
Article in a magazine
Silverstein, K. (1999, July 19). Millions for Viagra, pennies for diseases of the poor: Research money goes to profitable lifestyle drugs. Nation, 269, 13-19.
Article in a daily newspaper
Meier, B. (1999, July 8). Tobacco industry loses first phase of broad lawsuit. New York Times, p. A1.
Article in a Sunday newspaper
Hartocolis, A. (1999, June 20). New math: No one is below average [Week in review]. New York Times, p. 3.
Book review
Truax, A. (1999, February 8). Anywhere but here: a satisfying novel about unsatisfactory lives. [Review of the book Amy and Isabelle]. New Yorker, 74, 79-80.

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Media

Videocassette
Galan. H. (Director). (1994). Go back to Mexico! [Videotape]. Boston: PBS Video.

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Internet Resources

Document on a professional site
APA style: Reference examples for electronic source materials.(2003). Retrieved November 6, 2004 http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html
Article in a reference database
Garrow, D. J. Parks, Rosa Louise. In World book online Americas edition. Retrieved August 1, 2002, from http://www.worldbookonline.com
Article in an Internet-only magazine
Freeman, J. (2002, February 22). The New York Times Victims Fund reaches $51 million. The Earth Times Monthly. Retrieved May 30, 2002, from http://www.earthtimes.org/feb/terrorismthenewfeb22_02.htm
Work from a subscription service: Article in a magazine
Gafney, L., & Weiner, M. (1995, October). Finding future math/science teachers. Education Digest, 61, 33-35. Retrieved May 30, 2002, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database.
Work from a subscription service: Article in a newspaper
Solomon, A., & Hussey, D. (1998, April 21). Enemies of public education [Education Suppl.]. Village Voice, p. 2. Retrieved April 17, 1999, from LexisNexis Academic News database.
CD-ROM
The Family Doctor. (1993) [CD-ROM]. Portland, OR: Creative Multimedia.

Note:
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