Examples of APA Citations

The following are examples of APA citations.

Periodicals

Article in a journal paginated by volume

Shah, N. A. (2006). Women’s human rights in the Koran: An interpretive approach. Human Rights Quarterly, 28, 868–902.

Article in a journal paginated by issue

Lamb, B., & Keller, H. (2007). Understanding cultural models of parenting: The role of intracultural variation and response style. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(1), 50–57.

Magazine article

Von Drehle, D. (2015, April 20). Line of fire. Time, 185(14), 24–28.

Newspaper article

DeParle, J. (2009, April 19). Struggling to rise in suburbs where failing means fitting in. The New York Times, pp. A1, A20–A21.

Books

Books by one author

Jordan, Jennifer A. (2015). Edible memory: The lure of heirloom tomatoes and other forgotten foods. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Books by two to seven authors

McFadden, J., & Al-Khalili, J. (2014). Life on the edge: The coming of age of quantum biology. New York, NY: Crown.

Books by eight or more authors

Barrett, J. M., Smith, V., Wilson, R. T., Haley, V. A., Clarke, P., Palmer, N. B., … Fraser, D. (2012). How to cite references in APA style. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Edited book

Brummett, B. (Ed.). (2008). Uncovering hidden rhetorics: Social issues in disguise. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Essay in an edited book

Alberts, H. C. (2006). The multiple transformations of Miami. In H. Smith & O. J. Furuseth (Eds.), Latinos in the new south: Transformations of place (pp. 135–151). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Translation

Piketty, T. (2015). The Economics of inequality (A. Goldhammer, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Revised edition

Johnson, B., & Christensen, L. B. (2008). Educational research: Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed approaches (3rd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Internet Sources

Entire website

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. (2015). Convention on biological diversity. Retrieved from https://www.cbd.int/

Web page within a website

The great divide: How Westerners and Muslims view each other. (2006, July 6). In Pew global attitudes project. Retrieved from http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253

University program website

National security archive. (2009). Retrieved from George Washington University website: http://www.gwu.edu/∼nsarchiv/

Journal article found on the Web with a DOI

Because websites change and disappear without warning, many publishers have started adding a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to their articles. A DOI is a unique number that can be retrieved no matter where the article ends up on the Web.

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To locate an article with a known DOI, go to the DOI system website at http://dx.doi.org/ and type in the DOI number. When citing an article that has a DOI (usually found on the first page of the article), you do not need to include a URL in your reference or the name of the database in which you may have found the article.

Geers, A. L., Wellman, J. A., & Lassiter, G. D. (2009). Dispositional optimism and engagement: The moderating influence of goal prioritization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 913–932. doi:10.1037/a0014746

Journal article found on the Web without a DOI

Bendetto, M. M. (2008). Crisis on the immigration bench: An ethical perspective. Brooklyn Law Review, 73, 467–523. Retrieved from http://brooklaw.edu/students/journals/blr.php/

Journal article from an electronic database

The name and URL of the database are not required for citations if a DOI is available. If no DOI is available, provide the home page URL of the journal or of the book or report publisher.

Staub, E., & Pearlman, L. A. (2009). Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict: A commentary. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 11, 3–23. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/

Electronic book

Katz, R. N. (Ed.). (2008). The tower and the cloud: Higher education in an era of cloud computing. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7202.pdf

Video blog post

Green, J. (2015, July 7). Understanding the financial crisis in Greece [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigaryz-1y4

Presentation slides

Hall, M. E. (2009) Who moved my job!? A psychology of job-loss “trauma” [Presentation slides]. Retrieved from http://www.cew.wisc.edu/docs/WMMJ%20PwrPt-Summry2.ppt