WORKS
CITED IN APA FORMAT
WHAT
IS APA STYLE?
APA
(American Psychological Association) Style is a system of documentation that
is used for both scholarly manuscripts and research papers.
The style sheet (as it is often called) will provide you with specific
instructions on all matters of documenting information retrieved from books,
magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and electronic resources. This
information will appear in your bibliography, which is a list of the
works cited in your paper.
You must follow specific instructions when citing information from a
book, a periodical (meaning a magazine, newspaper, or academic journal), a Web
site, or an online database. Below are some examples.
EXAMPLES OF
CITATIONS FROM BOOKS AND PERIODICALS
Books
:
by
one author, translation:
Freud,S.
(1952) . On Dreams (J.Strachey, Trans.). New York: W.W.
Norton &
Company. (Original work published in 1901)
In-text
citation:
(Freud, 1901/1952)
by
more than one author:
Frieberg, H.J.,
& Rogers, C. (1994).
Freedom to Learn (3rd ed.). New York: Merrill.
In-text
citation:
(Rogers & Frieberg, 1994)
Article
from magazine:
Kanchier,
C. (2000, March/April). Dare to Change. Psychology Today, 33. 64-67.
In-text
citation: (Kanchier, 2000)
Article
from an academic journal:
Duncan,
R.D., Kennedy, W.A., & Smith, D.A. (2000) . Comparison of Conduct
–disordered Behavior in Crack-dealing Versus Nondealing Juvenile Offenders. Psychological
Reports, 86, 1089-1096.
In-text
citation: (Duncan et al., 2000)
DOCUMENTING
INFORMATION FOUND ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
For
a specific page or document in a Web site you need to note both the date of
creation of the document and page address as well as the day that you accessed it:
Bishop,
M.., Cameron, C.L., Collins, C.A. ,Danoff-Burg,
S., Kirk, S.B., Stanton, A.L.,
Sharon, C. L. & Sworowski, L.A. (2000). Emotionally Expressive Coping
Predicts Psychological and Physical Adjustment to Breast Cancer. Journal of
Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 875-882. Retrieved October 24, 2000,
from http://www.apa.org/journals/ccp/ccp685875.html
In-text
citation: (Bishop et al., 2000)
DOCUMENTING
INFORMATION FOUND IN THE LIBRARY’S SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES
An example of an online,
subscription database is ProQuest, which contains
citations, abstracts, and in many cases full-text articles from newspapers,
magazines, and journals. Although the information originally appeared in a paper
publication, you need to note that you retrieved it from the database as well as
the date on which it was retrieved:
Bonomo,
V. & Fogliani, A.M. (2000) Citalopram and haloperidol for Psychotic
depression. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 157(10), pp.1706+.
Retrieved October 24, 2000, from ProQuest database.
In-text citation: (Bonomo et al., 2000)
FINDING
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT APA STYLE
Print
resources
Since
there will be many instances where the above examples do not apply, you are
encouraged to ask for assistance from a Librarian or request to see the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association , which is kept at the
Reserves Desk on the first floor of the library. The call number is BF 76.7
.P83 2001.
Internet
resources
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APA
style From the official Web site of the American Psychological
Association, this Web page contains some examples electronic resource
citations.
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Online!
The creation of the publishers Bedford/St.Martin's, Online! contains
numerous examples of appropriate procedures for citing electronic resources.
Most of the information is drawn from the 4th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
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U-W
Madison Writing Center's Writers Handbook Drawing their information from
the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association,
the U-W Madison Writing Center has created a clear, well-balanced view of
APA style including examples of in-text and works-cited citations from both
print and electronic sources.
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