APA (5th) EXAMPLES (see: www.apastyle.org)
1.
Reference to an entire book:
Bernstein, T. M. (1965). The careful writer: A modern guide to English usage.
New York: Athenaeum.
2.
Book, third edition:
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York:
Macmillan.
3.
Edited book:
Gibbs, J. T., & Huang, L. N. (Eds.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological
interventions with minority youth. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
4.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Massaro, D. (1992). Broadening the domain of the fuzzy logical model of
perception. In H. L. Pick Jr., P. van den Broek, & D. C. Knill (Eds.),
Cognition: Conceptual and methodological issues (pp. 51-84). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
5.
Journal article: (use where the page numbering continues from issue to issue)
Mellers, B. A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences.
Psychological Bulletin, 126, 910-924.
6.
Journal article, two authors: (use for journals that start each issue with page one)
Klimoski, R., & Palmer, S. (1993). The ADA and the hiring process in organizations.
Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 45(2), 10-36.
7.
Internet articles based on a print source
(If you have viewed the article only in its electronic form, you should add in
brackets after the article title: [Electronic version] before the journal title.)
Things to remember:
1.
Use only the initials of authors' first and middle names. Use commas to separate
authors and to separate surnames and initials. When citing more than one author,
use an "&" before the final author and always use a comma before it.
2.
Only use one space after everything, including periods and colons in paper's body.
3.
Only capitalize the first word in the title, proper nouns (if used), and the first word
after using a colon. (Exception: capitalize all major words in the title of a journal in your
reference section and all major words of any title in the body of your paper).
4.
References are arranged in alphabetical order according to the first author's last
name (if same author, list from oldest published article to the newest one).
5.
APA mandates “who” when referring to humans and mandates the serial comma.
Correct: “The children who ate in the room..” Incorrect: “The teachers that went to the...”
6.
If the author and illustrator are not the same, you must list both. Example:
Bunting, E. (1994). Smoky night. (Illus. by David Diaz). New York: Harcourt.
7.
Do not add “Publishing Company,” “Press,” “Inc.,” or similar corporation identifiers to
book references in your bibliography.
American Psychological Association (2001). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Spring, 2006