Dictionary or other reference work (APA)

APA-116

Reference list entries

Leong, F. T. L. (Ed.). (2008). Encyclopedia of counseling (Vols. 1-4). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Nichols, J. D., & Nyholm, E. (2012). A concise dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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  • Treat the reference work as you would a book.
  • If the book has an editor, treat the entry as a work with an editor and no author, as in the first example.
  • If the book has multiple volumes, treat it as a multivolume work, as in the first example.

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