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CITING SOURCES, APA STYLE 6th edition (short version)

Books | Articles | Web Sites

Citations for a few common types of sources are listed in this guide. For explanations and examples of how to cite other types of sources, please

  • refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) (Ref BF76.7 .P83 2010)
  • visit Langsdale Library's longer guide to Citing Sources, APA Style: http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/apastyle.htm
  • ask your instructor (he or she will be the final judge!)

Note: Due to space constraints, the citations in this handout are not double-spaced. APA style requires that the text of the paper and the references list must be double-spaced.

 

Books [top]

Basic Entry
Book Authors or Editors. (Date of publication). Book title. City: Publisher.

Firestone, R. W., & Catlett, J. (1999). Fear of intimacy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Edited Book
Aronson, J. (Ed.). (2002). Improving academic achievement: Impact of psychological factors on education. Amsterdam, NY: Academic Press.

Chapter in an Edited Book
Wilson, G. T., Becker, C. B., & Heffernan, K. (1996). Eating disorders. In E. J. Mash & R. A. Barkley (Eds.), Child psychopathology (pp. 687-715). NewYork: Guilford Press.

 

Articles [top]

Basic Entry: Scholarly Journal, One Author
Author's Name. (Date of publication). Article title. Periodical Title, volume,page numbers. doi: xxx.xxxxxxxxxx

Anderson, C. J. (2003).  The psychology of doing nothing: Forms of decision avoidance result from reaction and emotion.  Psychological Bulletin, 129, 139-166. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.1.139

Magazine
Snarey, J. (1988, March 10). Men without children. Psychology Today, 22, 61-62. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/

Newspaper
Rohrlich, M. (2002, August 15). The road back to school is paved with style. The New York Times, p. C5.

Full Text Article From an Electronic Database
Borman, K. M. (1979). Children's interaction on playgrounds. Theory Into Practice, 18, 251-275. Retrieved from http://ehe.osu.edu/tip/
[Note: If a DOI is not available for an article you retrieved electrnoically, give the URL of the journal home page]

Article From an Internet-Only Journal
Rudner, L. M. (2003, April 15). How many people search the ERIC database each day? D-Lib Magazine, 9(4). Retrieved from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/rudner/04rudner.html

 

Web Sites [top]

Basic Entry: World Wide Web Sites
Authors, if known. (Last update or copyright date). Title of Work. Retrieved month day, year, from URL
[Note: The retrieved date is only necessary if the content of the webpage is likely to change in the future, as is the case with blogs and wikis.]

Way, T. (1997). Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division. Retrieved from http://www.dhmo.org/

World Wide Web Site, No Author Identified, No Date
GVUs 10th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/

Document Available on a University Web Site
Reibel, J. (1994). Institute for Learning Technologies: A pedagogy for the 21st century.  Retrieved April 30, 2003, from Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies Web site: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/ILTpedagogy.html

 

For additional assistance using APA style, please contact a librarian or consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) (Ref BF76.7.P83 2010).

 

A few citaton examples are taken, with permission, from:
Ball State University Libraries. (2003). Citation Style: APA. Retrieved from Ball State University Library Web site: http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/viewpage.aspx?SRC=./electronicresources/referenceshelf/apa.html

5/2005 TA-S, updated 8/09 crj