Citation Style: APA
(American Psychological Association)
Books
Basic Entry
Book Authors or Editors. (Date of publication). Book title.
City: Publisher.
Example:
Firestone, R. W., & Catlett, J. (1999). Fear of intimacy.
Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
Edited Book
Example:
Aronson, J. (Ed.). (2002). Improving academic achievement: Impact
of
psychological factors on education. Amsterdam, NY: Academic Press.
Chapter in an Edited Book
Example:
Wilson, G. T., Becker, C. B., & Heffernan, K. (1996). Eating disorders.
In E. J.
Mash & R. A. Barkley (Eds.), Child psychopathology
(pp. 687-715). New
York: Guilford Press.
Articles
Basic Entry Scholarly Journal, One Author
Authors Name. (Date of publication). Article title. Periodical
Title, volume,
page numbers.
Example:
Anderson, C. J. (2003). The psychology of doing nothing: Forms
of decision
avoidance result from reaction and emotion. Psychological
Bulletin, 129,
139-166.
Magazine
Example:
Snarey, J. (1988, March 10). Men without children. Psychology Today,
22,
61-62.
Newspaper
Example:
Rohrlich, M. (2002, August 15). The road back to school is paved with
style.
The New York Times, p. C5.
Full Text Article From an Electronic Database
Example:
Borman, K. M. (1979). Childrens interaction on playgrounds.
Theory
Into
Practice, 18, 251-275. Retrieved April 24, 2003, from Academic
Search
Premier database.
Article From an Internet-Only Journal
Example:
Rudner, L. M. (2003, April 15). How many people search the ERIC database
each day? D-Lib Magazine, 9(4). Retrieved April 28, 2003, from
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/rudner/04rudner.html
World Wide Web Sites
Basic Entry World Wide Web Sites
Authors, if known. (Last update or copyright date). Title of Work.
Retrieved
month day, year, from URL
Example:
Way, T. (1997). Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division. Retrieved
April
28, 2003, from http://www.dhmo.org/
World Wide Web Site, No Author Identified, No Date
Example:
GVUs 10th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved April 29, 2003,
from
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/
Document Available on a University Web Site
Example:
Reibel, J. (1994). Institute for Learning Technologies: A pedagogy
for the
21st century. Retrieved April 30, 2003, from Columbia
University, Institute
for Learning Technologies Web site:
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/ILTpedagogy.html
For more information, see:
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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th
ed.), available in Bracken Library at the Reference Desk BF76.7 .P83 2001
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