APA Style Manual
Resources
The Publication
Manual is available in the Nealley Library at the Reference Desk (BF
76.7 P83 2001) or use one of these Online
Citation Composers:
The Citation
Machine
http://citationmachine.net
The Citation
Builder
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php
KnightCite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/
Referencing Online Resources
Referencing a Website
Felluga, D. (1999). Undergraduate guide to literary theory.
Retrieved April 2, 2002, from
http://omni.cc.purdue.edu
%>felluga/theory2.html
Online Journal
Article from the Internet
Kenneth, I.A.
(2002). A Buddhist response to the nature of human rights.
Journal
of Buddhist Ethics, 8(4). Retrieved April 2, 2002, from
http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html
Online
Newspaper Article from the Internet
Hilts, P.J.
(1999, February 16). In forecasting their emotions, most people flunk out.
New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2002, from http://www.nytimes.com
Article from
an Online Periodical Database
Gold-Steinberg,
S. & Logan, D. (1999). Integrating play therapy in the treatment of
children with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,
69, 495-594. Retrieved
April 2, 2002, from Academic Search Elite database.
Articles from
a database should include the date of retrieval/use and the proper name of
the database.
General Tips
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Label reference list, References.
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Alphabetize reference lists by authors' last names.
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Never use the full first name of an author. Use initials only.
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If
you have more than one work by a particular author, list them by
publication date, oldest to newest (a 1991 article would appear before a
1997 article).
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Use
"&" instead of "and" when listing more than one author of a single work.
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Capitalize only the first word of a title and subtitle of a work.
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Italicize titles of websites, books, and periodicals (magazines, journals,
newspapers).
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If
your reference continues to a second line, double-space and use a hanging
indent for the second line and all subsequent lines.
Referencing Books
Book – More
than one Author
Spetch, M. L. &
Wilkie, D. M. (1983). How to succeed. New York: Atheneum.
Book with an Editor
Jones, J. (Ed.).
(1992). PCs today. New York: Doubleday.
Chapter in an Edited
Book
Men, J. T.
(1992). MS-DOS. In S. L. Hsus (Ed.), PCs today (p. 132). Iowa: Acme.
Article in an
Encyclopedia
Allen, A. L.
(Ed.). (1995). Privacy in health care. In Encyclopedia
of bioethics
(Rev. ed., Vol.4. pp. 450-461). New York: Macmillan-Simon.
Electronic Book
Kerr, J. (1997).
Shakespeare’s Flowers. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson’s Books.
Retrieved March 6, 2001, from netLibrary:
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=60
Referencing Articles in
Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals
Article from
Newspaper
Colvin, R. L.
(2000, July 3). A radical solution for resolving failing students.
Los Angeles Times,
pp. A3, A14.
For articles
with discontinuous pages, type the page numbers separated by commas,
pp. B1,
B3.
Article from
Magazine - No Author
Time management
tips. (1992, December). Business Talk, 70-76.
Article from
Scholarly Journal - More than One Author
Elia, J., & Ambrosini, P.J. (1999).
Drug therapy:
Treatment of
attention-deficit-
hyperactivity disorder.
New England Journal of Medicine,
340(10),
780-788.
