| Books
Electronic Sources
and Articles
In APA Style, the bibliography, called References, is the
last page of the research paper. You must list all sources to which
your paper refers .
Please note that all references
must be double-spaced with a hanging indent. This means that the first
line is flush with the left margin, and all subsequent lines are indented
5 spaces. Entries
are listed in alphabetical order.
Books
Book
with named author(s):
Cone, J. D., &
Foster, S. L. (1993). Dissertations and theses from start to finish:
Psychology and
related fields. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
Book with an editor:
Gibbs, J. T. (Ed.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological interventions
with minority youth. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Book with named edition:
Mitchell, T. R., & Larson, J. R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations:
An introduction to organizational
behavior (3rd ed.). New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Encyclopedia entry with author:
Bergmann, P. G. (1993). Relativity. In The new encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. 26, pp. 501- 508).
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Encyclopedia entry, no author given:
Great seal. (1997). In The encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 13,
pp. 352). Danbury, CT: Grolier.
Multi-volume works:
Koch, S. (Ed.). (1959). Psychology: A study of science (Vol.
3). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Article or 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.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (APA is both
author & publisher):
American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical
manual of mental disorders
(4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Electronic Book from netLibrary
Surprenant, C. (2003). Freud's mass psychology: Questions of scale.
New York: Palgrave
Macmillan. Retrieved August 18, 2004,
from netlibrary.
Electronic Sources and Articles
When you are using an online/electronic book or an online/electronic
article that you retrieved from a library database, cite the book
or article information as listed on this page, and tack the following
statement on the end: Retrieved Month day, year, from database name.
This could read: Retrieved April 12, 2006, from netlibrary.
For paper and electronic article citations, italicize both the journal
title and the volume.
Journal article, one author, paginated throughout the year (accessed
in paper):
Bekerian, D. A. (1993). In search of the typical eyewitness. American
Psychologist, 48, 675-689.
Journal article, more than six authors, paginated by issue (accessed
from an online database):
- After the sixth author's name and initial, use et al. to indicate
the remaining authors.
- List the authors in the order that they appear on the article.
- In the paper's text, include the et al. in the parenthetical
citation each time the work is cited: (Dickey et al., 2000).
Dickey, S. B., Wolchik, S. A., Gabriel, A. B., Trenton, S. C., Roberts,
B. J., Hatton, R. A., et al.
(2000). Autonomy and decision-making
for health promotion in the adolescent. Pediatric
Nursing, 26 (5), 11-23. Retrieved
August 13, 2005, from Academic Search Elite database.
Newspaper article, two authors, discontinuous pages (accessed in
paper):
- Magazine articles use the same date format
Posner, M. I., & Basner, T. (2000, October 29). Obesity affects
economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.
Article from Opposing Viewpoints (an online database):
Clear, T. R. (2002). Imprisonment does not reduce crime. In R. Espejo
(Ed.), America's Prisons.
San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. Retrieved
August 18, 2004, from Opposing Viewpoints
Resource Center database.
Article from the CQ Researcher Online (online site for one publication):
Clark, C. S. (2002, December 20). Charter schools. The CQ Researcher
Online, 12, 1033-1056.
Retrieved August 18, 2004, from http://library.cqpress.com
Entire World Wide Web Site:
If you are citing an entire Web site, not a particular document on
a site, you may simply include the web address in the text of your paper
without a reference entry:
PsychWeb (http://www.psychwww.com) is an informational site for psychology
instructors.
Specific Document on the Web:
Sugarmann, J. (2002). Reverse fire. MoJo Wire. Retrieved August
25, 2002, from http://bsd.mojones.com/~sugermann.html
Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date:
GVU's 8th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved August 8, 2000,
from
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/survey-1997-10/
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