LibGuides: Citation Resources: APA (American Psychological Association)

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APA

Book	In Text Citations	Reference List
No Author	Title of Book (Publication Year)	Title of book (Edition). (Year of publication). Publisher.
	(Title, Year)
	Title (Year, pp. #s)
One Author	Last Name (Year)…	Author. (Year of publication). Title of book (Edition). Publisher.
	(Last Name, Year)
	Last Name (Year, pp. #s)
Two Authors	Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name (Year)…	Author, A. A., & Author B. B. (Year of publication). Title of book (Edition). Publisher name. https://doi.org/xxx
	(Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name, Year)
	Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name (Year, pp. #s)
Multiple Authors	(Last Name of 1^st Author et al., Year)	Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year of publication). Title of book (Edition). Publisher.
	Last Name of 1^st Author et al. (Year)
	Last Name of 1^st Author et al. (Year, pp. #)
Indirect Source (a book is citing someone else)	Source Name (as cited in Book Author’s Last Name et al., Year, pp. #)…. Freud's study (as cited in Smith et al., 1983)…	Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of book (Edition). Publisher name. Smith, P., Jones, M., & Black, J. (1983). Introduction to psychology: A reader. McGraw-Hill.
	(Last name, Year, as cited in Book Author’s Last Name et al., Year) (Jung, 1920, as cited in Smith et al., 1983)

Journal	In Text Citations	Reference List
One Author (print)	Last Name (Year)	Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of publication, Volume(Issue), pp-pp.
	(Last Name, Year)
	Last Name (Year) “…” (p.#)
Two Authors (print)	Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name (Year)…	Authors, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of publication, Volume(Issue), pp-pp.
	(Author 1 Last Name & Author 2 Last Name, Year)
	Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name (Year) “…” (pp.#)
Multiple Authors (print)	Last Name of 1^st Author et al. (Year)	Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C., & Author, D. D. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, Volume(issue), Page numbers.
	(Last Name of 1^st Author et al., Year)
Electronic Journal (from a database) with DOI	Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name (Year)…	Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Publication date). Title of article. Title of publication, volume number (issue number), pp-pp. https://doi.org/xxxxxxxxxx
	(Author 1 Last Name & Author 2 Last Name, Year)
	Author 1 Last Name and Author 2 Last Name (Year)
Electronic Journal (from a database) without DOI	Last Name (Year)	Author, A. A. (Publication date). Title of article. Title of publication, volume number(issue number), pp-pp. Web address of journal.
	(Last Name, Year)
	(Last Name, Year, p. #)

Electronic Source	In Text Citations	Reference List
Web page with author	Last Name (Year)	Author, A. (Date). Title of page. Website name. URL
	(Last Name, Year)
Web page with no author	(Group Name, Year)	Group name. (Date). Title of page. URL

Author Type	Parenthetical Citation	Narrative Citation
One Author	(Luna, 2020)	Luna (2020)
Two authors	(Salas & D’Agostino, 2020)	Salas and D’Agostino (2020)
Three or more authors	(Martin et al., 2020)	Martin et al. (2020)
Group Author with abbreviation First Citation Subsequent citations	(National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2020) (NIMH, 2020)	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2020) NIMH (2020)
Group Author Without Abbreviation	(Stanford University, 2020)	Stanford University (2020)
With Page Number	(Stanford University, 2020, p.150)	Stanford University (2020, p.150)
Personal Communication (email, social media, interview, etc.)	(E. Roberts, personal communication, July 21, 2020)	Emily Roberts (personal communication, July 21, 2020)

*Table provided by the APA Style Guide: American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Author-date citation system. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/author-date

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