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Citing Bibliographic Sources: APA: Books, Chapters & Reference

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Standard Reference Forms

Author, A. A. (date). Title of work. Publisher. DOI

Editor, P. P. (Ed.). (date). Title of work. Publisher.

Books

One Author

Hamner, E. (2017). Editing the soul: science and fiction in the genome age. Penn State University Press.

Two Authors

Hart, A., & Brooks, F. E. (2017). The student athlete's guide to college success. Greenwood.

More than Two Authors

  • Include all names and initials for 1-20 authors, using “&” before the last one. (p. 286)
  • If there are 21 or more authors, include the first 19 followed by an ellipsis (but no &) and then the final author.  Example:    Author18, P. Q., Author19, V. W.,…Author39, Y. Z. (2019).

Edited Book

Edwards, J. K., Young, A., & Nikels, H. J., (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of strengths-based clinical practices: Finding common factors. Routledge.

Edition Other than First

Cole, P. (2021). Ben Fletcher: The life and times of a black Wobbly (2nd ed.). PM Press.

Chapter from an Edited Book

Porter, R., & McIlvaine-Newsad, H. L. (2015). Gardening in green space for environmental justice: Food security, leisure, and social capital. In H. Mair & J. Sumner (Eds.), Leisure and Food, (pp. 69-85). Routledge.

Signed Encyclopedia Article

Carpenter, C. J. (2019). Power, Couple. In J. J. Ponzetti (Ed.), Macmillan encyclopedia of families, marriages, and intimate relationships (pp. 684-686). Macmillan.

Wikipedia entry

Academy award for best picture. (2021, August 22). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture&oldid=1040095381

  • cite the date of the archived version so readers can retrieve the version you used

 

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