Research Lab 3
APA Style Exercise – Reference List
Part I: The following is the example of a reference page in APA style. Find the mistakes
and correct them, and then underline or highlight your corrections.
Works cited
Balagura, Steve. (1968). “Influence of Osmotic and Caloric Loads Upon Lateral
Hypothalamic Self-Stimulation” Journal of Comparative and Physiological
Psychology, 66, 325-328.
Abel, S. E., Fox, P. T., Potley, J. R. (1997). Insights from recent positron emission
tomographic studies of drug abuse and dependence. Current Opinion in
Psychiatry, 19(3), 246-252.
Klatzky, R. L. (1980). Human Memory: Structures and Processes (Second Edition).
Friedman: San Francisco, CA.
Swaminathan, N. (2007). Eating Disorders. Psychology today website
Psychologytoday.com. Found on 11/13/07.
Part II: Take the information in the following examples and create a reference page.
Make sure you follow the rules exactly! 
Example 1 (periodical):
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Author: Dinah Codon
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Year: 1998
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Year: 1994
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Title: The Science of Rain
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Title: Kids Growing Up
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Journal/Periodical: Nature
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Issue: 331
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Pages: 585-589
Scared
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Journal/Periodical:
Newsweek
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Volume: 73; Issue: 3
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Pages: 43-49
Example 2 (periodical):
Example 3 (book):
Example 4 (book):
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Author: Sarah Smith
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Author: Jessica Brown
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Year: 2012
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Year: 2009
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Title: The Mysteries of the Cat
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Title: The Cultures of the
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Publisher: Oxford
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Location: London
World
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Publisher: Cambridge
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Location: New York
References
Abel, S. E., Fox, P. T., & Posner, J. P. (1998). Positron emission tomographic studies of
the cortical anatomy of single word processing. Nature, 331, 585-589.
Abel, S. E., Fox, P. T., Potley, J. R. (1997). Insights from recent positron emission
tomographic studies of drug abuse and dependence. Current Opinion in
Psychiatry, 19(3), 246-252.
Balagura, S. (1968). Influence of osmotic and caloric loads upon lateral hypothalamic
self-stimulation. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 66, 325
328.
Codon, D. E. (1994, January 10). Kids growing up scared. Newsweek, 73, 43-49.
Klatzky, R. L. (1980). Human Memory: Structures and Processes (2nd ed.). San
Francisco: Friedman.
Swaminathan, N. (2007). Eating Disorders. Retrieved November 13, 2007, from
http://psychologytoday.com/conditions/eating.html