The simplest method is to use word. See below for examples
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At the top click on references. Top center.
Select Insert Citation. Top center.
Select add new source
A pop up box will appear
Select the type of source that you are using.
If the source is from the internet select electronic source.
Fill in as much information that you have.
Then click ok.
Something like this will appear (Auxt, 2010)
Repeat this for all your sources.
After you have all sources in select Bibliography.
At the bottom of the pop up window
select insert bibliography.
All your sources will appear. Below is a source I made up.
Auxt, C. (2010, October 31). How to do a bibliography. Duncannon, Pa, USA.
Online are websites that will do it for you also.
http://citationmachine.net/ works. Select APA style. Then select the type of the source. Follow
directions this will do it for you
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPAOrientation.html This site will give the directions on how to
write the bibliography with examples. Below are a few examples copied from the site.
BOOK
Book: basic form;
Baxter, C. (1997). Race equality in health care and education. Philadelphia:
first edition,
Ballière Tindall.
single author,
read in print
Book: basic form,
later edition, two Hyde, J. S.,& Delamater, J. (2008). Human Sexuality (10th ed.) New York:
McGraw-Hill.
authors, read in
print
Book: editors in
place of authors
Castellanos, J., Gloria, A. M., & Kamimura, M. (Eds.). (2006). The Latina/o
pathway to the Ph.D.: Abriendo caminos. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Grabill, C. M., & Kaslow, N. J. (1999). An ounce of prevention: Improving
Book review: basic
children's mental health for the 21st century [Review of the book
form; 2 authors;
Handbook of prevention and treatment with children and adolescents].
read in print
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, 115-116.
Chapter in edited
work: print
Alibali, M. W. (2005). Mechanisms of change in the development of
mathematical reasoning. In R. V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child
development and behavior (pp. 79-123). New York: Academic Press.
Curtin, J. J., & Lang, A. R. (2007). Alcohol and emotion: Insights and
Chapter in edited
directives from affective science. In J. Rottenberg & S. L. Johnson (Eds.),
work: second or
Emotion and psychopathology: Bridging affective and clinical science
later edition; print (pp. 191-213). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Journal
Type of Source
Sample Reference List Entry
Journal article:
Gaudio, J. L., & Snowdon, C. T. (2008). Spatial cues more salient than color
basic form; two
cues in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) reversal learning. Journal of
authors; read
Comparative Psychology, 122, 441-444. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.122.4.441
online, with doi
Alibali, M. W. (1999). How children change their minds: Strategy change can
Journal article:
be gradual or abrupt. Developmental Psychology 35, 127-145.
basic form;
single author;
Murray, M. E. (2001). Outcomes of concurrent utilization review. Nursing
print
Economics, 19, 17-23.
Journal article:
Hamilton, R. J., & Bowers, B. (2007). The theory of genetic vulnerability: A
basic form, two
Roy model exemplar. Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 254-264. doi:
authors; read
10.1177/0894318407303127
online, with doi
Journal article:
two authors;
Carter, S., & Dunbar-Odom, D. (2009). The converging literacies center: An
read online from
integrated model for writing programs. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric,
journal website;
Technology, and Pedagogy, 14.1. Retrieved from
a webtext; no
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/
page numbers;
no doi
Magazine
Type of Source
Sample Reference List Entry
Magazine article:
Park, A. (2009, Sept. 14). A shot at cancer. Time 174(10), 32-39.
print
Magazine article:
read online, found
through a
database (EBSCO)
Park, A. (2009, Sept. 14). A shot at cancer. Time 174(10), 32-39. Retrieved
do not list the
from www.time.com/
database; list the
home page for the
magazine; this
article has no doi
Newspaper
article: read
online, no doi
Barringer, F. (2009, Sept. 14). Hawaii tries green tools in remaking power
grid. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com
Brochure
[pamphlet]: no
date; no author;
print
Inside these doors: A guidebook of Elfreth's Alley homes [Brochure]. (n.d).
Philadelphia: Elfreth's Alley Association.
Video or DVD
Arledge, E. (Producer & Director). (2009). Autism genes [DVD]. Available
from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/
Reference list entry: Electronic source
Type of Source
Sample Reference List Entry
Web site: no
author, no date of
publication. If
there is no author,
title moves to the Research Initiatives. (n.d.). Retrieved January 11, 2007, from MIT,
Comparative Media Studies website,
first spot. Use
retrieval date only http://cms.mit.edu/research/index.php
because the
content at that
address likely
changes.
Online discussion
list
Kahn, S. (2009, September 5). Re: Composition-rhetoric labor caucus
[electronic mailing list message]. Retrieved from h-rhetor mailing list,
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=h-rhetor
Blog Posting
Lopez-Duran, N. (2009, August 27). Re: Gender and age differences in the
symptomatology of child depression [Web log message]. Retrieved from
Child Psychology Research Blog, http://www.child-psych.org/
Email: (falls under
the APA category
Personal communications should not be included in your reference list.
of personal
communications)