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ESS 185 - Lifetime Wellness: APA

Exercise & Sport Science, Lifetime Wellness

ESS 185

Class Guide: Resources for Research

APA Reference Examples

   BOOKS

One Author: 

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher Name. DOI (if available)

Gleick, J. (1987). Chaos: Making a new science. Penguin.

Two authors:

Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. American Psychological Association.

Book with No Author:

Title (# ed.). (Year of Publication). Publisher.

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (11th ed.). (2003). Merriam- Webster.

Whole Edited Book:

Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher. DOI (if available)

Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. Russell Sage Foundation.

Edited Book with an Author or Authors:

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (E. Editor, Ed.). Publisher. DOI (if available)

Plath, S. (2000). The unabridged journals (K. V. Kukil, Ed.). Anchor.

 

Edition Other Than the First:

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (# edition). Publisher. DOI (if available)

Helfer, M. E., Kempe, R. S., & Krugman, R. D. (1997). The battered child (5th ed.). University of Chicago Press.

    PERIODICALS IN PRINT

Article in Journal Paginated by Volume:

Journals that are paginated by volume begin with page one in issue one, and continue numbering issue two where issue one ended, etc.

Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.

Article in Journal Paginated by Issue:

Journals paginated by issue begin with page one every issue; therefore, the issue number gets indicated in parentheses after the volume. The parentheses and issue number are not italicized or underlined.

Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(3), 5-13.

Article in a Magazine:

Henry, W. A., III. (1990, April 9). Making the grade in today's schools. Time, 135, 28-31.

PERIODICALS ONLINE

Journal Aricle:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(issue number), page range. DOI

Buhs, J. B. (2013). Camping with Bigfoot: Sasquatch and the varieties of middle-class resistance to consumer culture in late twentieth-century North America. Journal of Popular Culture46(1), 38–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12015

Magazine:

With issue & volume numbers:

Schaefer, N. K., & Shapiro, B. (2019, September 6). New middle chapter in the story of human evolution. Science365(6457), 981–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550

Without issue & volume numbers:

Nasar, S., & Gruber, D. (2006, August 28). Manifold destiny. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-destiny

   WEBPAGES

Webpage on a website with an individual author: 

Author, A. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Title of webpage. Publisher. url

Desilver, D. (2023, November 22). Online shopping has grown rapidly in U.S., but most sales are still in stores. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/22/online-shopping-has-grown-rapidly-in-u-s-but-most-sales-are-still-in-stores/

Webpage on a website with an organizational group author:

Organization Name. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Title of webpage. Publisher. url

Leslie J. Savage Library (n.d.). Citations: APA. Western Colorado University. https://library.western.edu/lib/citations-apa

    E-BOOKS

Use the same formats for both print books and ebooks. For ebooks, the format, platform, or device (e.g., Kindle) is not included in the reference.

 

APA In-Text Citations

Basic Format for In-Text Citations:

Parenthetical citation: (Gleick, 1987)

Narrative citation: This is a fact, according to Gleick (1987).

If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers.

For additional information on in-text citations, view the official APA Style page on the Author-Date Citation System.

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