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Citation Guide

APA Citation Examples

Book with One Author

Template:

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

 

Example:

Stoneman, R. (2008). Alexander the Great: A life in legend. Yale University Press. 

 

Book Chapter

Template:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of Chapter. In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of book: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. pages of chapter). Publisher. DOI (if available)

 

Example:

Armstrong, D. (2019). Malory and character. In M. G. Leitch & C. J. Rushton (Eds.), A new companion to Malory (pp. 144-163). D. S. Brewster.

Journal Article from a Database with One Author

Template:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of article. Title of periodical, Volume Number(Issue Number), Pages. DOI (if available).

Example:

Bolger, A. (2020). Normal childhood development curriculum in a pediatric rehabilitation training program: An interactive, novel approach. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 13(1), 57-62. https://doi.org/10.3233/PRM-190645

 

Journal Article from a Database with Two Authors

List by author last names and initials. Separate author names with a comma. Use the ampersand instead of "and.".

Example:

Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The next big five inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive  power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(1), 117-143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000096

 

Journal Article from a Database with Three to Twenty Authors

List by last names and initials; commas separate author names, while the last author name is preceded again by ampersand.

Example:

Nguyen, T., Carnevale, J. J., Scholer, A. A., Miele, D. B., & Fujita, K. (2019). Metamotivationalknowledge of the role of high-level and low-level construal in goal-relevant task performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(5), 879-899. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000166

 

Journal Article from a Database with Over Twenty Authors

List by last names and initials; commas separate author names. After the first 19 author's names, use an ellipsis in place of the remaining author names. Then, end with the final author's name (do not place an ampersand before it). There should be no more than twenty names in the citation in total.

Example:

Pegion, K., Kirtman, B. P., Becker, E., Collins, D. C., LaJoie, E., Burgman, R., Bell, R., DelSole, R.,Min, D., Zhu, Y., Li, W., Sinsky, E., Guan, H., Gottschalck, J., Metzger, E. J., Barton, N. P., Achuthavarier, D., Marshak, J., Koster, R., . . .  Kim, H. (2019). The subseasonal experiment (SubX): A multimodel subseasonal prediction experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(10), 2043-2061. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0270.1

 

*When citing journal articles, present journal titles in full. Italicize journal titles, and maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title. Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. For example: you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.

Newspaper Article

Template:

Last Name, F. M. (Year, Month Date). Title of article. Title of Publication. URL (if available)

 

Example:

Kornfield, M. (2021, February 13). First known patient reinfected with South Africa coronavirus variant is in critical condition. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/13/reinfection-south-africa-variant/  

 

For print newspaper articles, provide the page or page numbers of the article after the newspaper title. Do not include the abbreviations p. or pp. before the pages.

 

Magazine Article

Template:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Date). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number)pages. DOI (if available).

 

Example:

Sidey, H. (1979, January 29). On trusting the Soviets. Time, 113(5), 17.

Webpage

Template:

Last Name, F. M. (Year, Month Date). Title of Page. Site Name. URL

 

Example:

Price, D. (2018, March 23). Laziness does not exist. Medium. https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

 

YouTube Video

Template:

Account Name. (Year, Month Date). Title of Video [Video]. Streaming Service. URL

 

Example:

Harvard University. (2019, August 28). Soft robotic gripper for jellyfish [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guRoWTYfxMs

 

Blog

Template:

Last Name, F. M. (Year, Month Date). Title of Post. Web Host. URL

 

Example:

Axelrod, A. (2019, August 11). A century later: The Treaty of Versailles and its rejection of racial equality. NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/11/742293305/a-century-later-the-treaty-of-versailles-and-its-rejection-of-racial-equality

 

Tweet

Template:

Last Name, F. M. or Name of Group [@username], (Year, Month Date). Content of the post up to the first 20 words [Tweet]. Site Name. URL

 

Example:

National Geographic [@NatGeo], (2020, January 12). Scientists knew African grays are clever, but now they've been documented assisting other members of their species-even strangers [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/NatGeo/status/1216346352063537154

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Artificial Intelligence

Template:

Author. (Date). Name of tool (Version of tool) [Large language model]. URL

 

Example:

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat