APA CITATION (American Psychological Association)
References
Book with one author:
Henley, P. (1999). The hummingbird house. Denver, CO: MacMurry.
Book with two authors:
Gillespie, P., & Lerner, N. (2000). The Allyn and Bacon guide to peer tutoring. Boston, MA: Allyn.
Article in a Print Magazine:
Buchman, D. (2006, March). A special education. Good Housekeeping, 143-148.
Article in a Print Newspaper:
Brubaker, B. (2007, May 24). New health center targets country’s uninsured patients. Washington Post,
p. LZ01.
Article in a Print Scholarly Journal:
Bagchi, A. (1996). Conflicting nationalisms: The voice of the subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu.
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 15(1), 41-50.
A Page on a Website:
Turner, B. (2010, October 30). How to become film extras or stand-Ins. eHow.com. Retrieved November
2, 2010, from http://www.ehow.com/how_7419889_become-film-extras-stand_ins.html
A Page on a Website, no author named:
Diversity affairs. (n.d.) Retrieved November 2, 2010, from http://www.canton.edu/diversity/
Article in a Web Magazine:
Bernstein, M. (2002, August 16). 10 Tips on writing the living web. A list apart: For people who make
websites. Retrieved November 2, 2010, from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving
Scholarly Article in an Online Database with a DOI (digital object identifier):
Langhamer, C. (2007). Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England. Historical Journal, 50(1),
173-196. doi: 10.1017/S0018246X06005966
For Scholarly Articles in an Online Database without DOIs, include URL for the journal’s home page (or
alternatively, the database name):
Langhamer, C. (2007). Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England. Historical Journal, 50(1),
173-196. Retrieved from http://journals.cambridge.org
APA IN-TEXT CITATIONS (PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS – General Format: (Last name, Year, p. #).
Examples of in-text citations for some of the references above:
(Henley, 1999, p. 241)
Author name and page number available
(Turner, 2010)
Author available, but no page number because it is a web document
(“Diversity,” n.d.)
Web page with no author or page numbers, so use the article title
(shortened if needed) in quotes; if no date, insert “n.d.” to indicate no date
(Langhamer, 2007, p. 192) Scholarly article in online database, so original print page number available