APA Citation Style

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition

For Education, Psychology, and other Social Sciences

 

Color code

Author(s) <blue>

 

 Date <red> 

 

 Title of book <pink> 

 

 Title of article <green> 

 

 Title of periodical <purple> 

 
Volume <orange> 

 

 Pages <lt blue>

 

 Place of publication <brown> 

 

 Publisher <yellow>

 

 Other information <gray>

 

 

Journal Article

Where pagination continues from issue to issue through the entire volume

Geier, B. (2000). Organic agriculture worldwide--a fast growing reality for 100% pesticide risk reduction. Acta-horticulturae, 525, 31-37.

 

Journal or Magazine Article

Where each issue starts with page one

Donaldson, D. (2007). When to buy organic. Better Homes and Gardens, 85(6), 288.

 

Magazine or Journal Article Retrieved from a Database

If the article has a DOI (digital object identifier), give that number at the end and do not include the database name. If there is no DOI, include the name of the database and the document number assigned by the database, if any.

Shelke, K. (2005). How to say it organically: consumers are buying into organic foods; are you buying organic ingredients? Food Processing, 66(4), 49-54. Retrieved from Academic OneFile database (A132242002).


Newspaper Article

Dillon, S. (2009, April 14). Education standards likely to see toughening. New York Times, A3.

If the newspaper was accessed through the online version of the newspaper:

Dillon, S. (2009, April 14). Education standards likely to see toughening. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/education/15educ.html.


Book

Berger, S. (2005). Allotment gardening : an organic guide for beginners. Devon [England]: Green Books, Ltd.

eBook

For an electronic book, include the name of the database.

Berger, S. (2005). Allotment gardening : an organic guide for beginners. Devon [England]: Green Books, Ltd. Retrieved from NetLibrary.

Book with an editor

Kruger, A. (Ed.). (2001). Gardening When It Counts. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Book Article or Chapter

Begin with the name of the author of the selection, not with the name of the author of the book, then the year of publication. Then give the title of the selection, "in" the name of the author or editor (followed by "Ed." for Edited by), the title of the book; the pages on which the selection appears; and publication information.

Coleman, E. (1995). The new organic grower. In A. Kruger (Ed.), Gardening When It Counts (pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood .


Website

List as many of the following elements as are available: author's name; date of publication (if there is no date, use "n.d."); title of document (in italics); URL that will take readers directly to the source. Give your date of access if the source itself has no date.

Mayo Clinic Staff. (2006, December). Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious? http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organic-food/NU00255 .

Blog

Writer's name, date of post, title or subject of the post. Follow with the words "Message posted to" and the URL.

Supak, S. (2006, March 2). Pesticides linked to frog mutations. Message posted to http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/.

Encyclopedia Article

Smith, J. (1987). Organic Gardening. In The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia (Vol. 24, pp. 390-392). Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Online Encyclopedia Article

"botanical garden" World Encyclopedia . 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. 28 February 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t142.e1518 .

Movie

To cite a film, video, or DVD, list the director and the year of the film's release. Give the title, followed by "Motion picture" in brackets, the country where it was made, and the name of the studio. If the motion picture is difficult to find, include instead the name and address of its distributor.

Soderbergh, S. (Director). (2000). Traffic [Motion picture]. United States: Gramercy Pictures.

YouTube video

For videos, provide the author only if you are sure that person created the video. Do not list the person posting the video online as the author. If you are unsure, treat the citation as having no author.

Has an author:

Takayma-Ogawa, J., & Willette, J. (2007). What is information literacy [Video] Retrieved December 12, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeopJX5jJV8

Has no author:

Slingshot fun [Video]. (2007). Retrieved February 1, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCmZYce0J2E.

 

General Rules


Based on http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm by Robert Delaney at B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University.