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WRITINGAPA

STYLE

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BASIC FORMATS FOR CITING BOOKS

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location:

Publisher

BOOKS WITH ONE AUTHOR

Gerald, K. (2007).Statistics for Management

and Economics (7th. Ed.) New York, NY:

Thompson South Western.

BOOKS WITH TWO AUTHORS

Cummings, T. G., & Worley, C. G. (2001).

Organizational Development and Change.

(6th.ed). Washington, DC: South Western

College Publishing.

BOOKS WITH THREE TO SEVEN AUTHORS

Kernis, M.H., Cornell, D. P., Sun, C. R., Berry,

A., Harlow, T., & Bach, J. S (1993). Technical

Communication. Washington, DC : Anchor

EDITED BOOKS WITH NO AUTHORS

Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Ed.) . (1997).

Consequences of Growing up Poor. New York,

NY: Russell Sage Foundation

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BASIC FORMATS FOR CITING BOOKS

CONTD

EDITED BOOK WITH 1 AUTHOR OR AUTHORS

Plath, S. (2000). The Unabridged Journals K.V

Kukil, (Ed.). New York, NY: Anchor.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Sadie, S., & Tyrrell, J. (Eds.). (2002) In The New

Groove

Dictionary Music and Musicians. (2nd ed., Vols.

1-29). New York, NY: Grove.

ARTICLE IN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA

Kinni, T. B. (2004). Disney, Walt (1901-1966) :

Founder of the Walt Disney Company in

Encyclopedia of Leadership (Vol.1, pp. 345-

349). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication

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FORMAT FOR CITING ARTICLES IN A PERIODICALFORMAT FOR CITING ARTICLES IN A PERIODICALFORMAT FOR CITING ARTICLES IN A PERIODICALFORMAT FOR CITING ARTICLES IN A PERIODICAL

ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL

Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing

psychology journal articles.Journal of

Comparative and Physiological Psychology,

55, 893-896

ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINEHenry, W.A., (1990, April 9). Making the grade intodays schools. Time, 135, 28-31.

ARTICLE IN A NEWSPAPER

UNLIKE OTHER PERIODICALS, p OR pp. PRECEDES PAGE NUM-BERS FOR A NEWSPAPER REFERENCE IN APA STYLE. SINGLE

PAGES TAKE p., E.G. p. B2; MULTIPLE PAGES TAKE pp . B2, B4, C1,

C2-C4.

Scultz, S. (2005, December 28). Calls made

strengthen state energy policies.

TheGleaner, pp. 1A, 2A.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Moller, G. (2002, August). Ripples versus

Rumbles [Letter to the Editor].

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FORMAT FOR ELECTRONIC SOURCES

ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE

Smyth, A. M., Parker A. L., & Pease, D. L. (2002).A study of enjoyment of peas. Journal of

Abnormal Eating, 8 (3) , 120-125.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Parker-Pope, T. (2008, May 6). Psychaitry

handbook linked to drug industry.

The New York Times. Retrieved from

http: // www.nytimes.com

ELECTRONIC BOOKS

De Huff, E.W. Taytays tales: Traditional PuebloIndian tales. Retrieved from

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

dehuff/taytay/tay.html

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

Feminism. (1998). In Encyclopedia Britannica

Online. Retrieved from http://www.

britannica.com/ EBchecked/topic/724633/

feminism

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IN -TEXT CITATIONS

SHORT QUOTATIONS

According to Jones (1998), Students oftenAccording to Jones (1998), Students oftenAccording to Jones (1998), Students oftenAccording to Jones (1998), Students often

had difficulty using APA style, especiallyhad difficulty using APA style, especiallyhad difficulty using APA style, especiallyhad difficulty using APA style, especially

when it was their first time (p.199).when it was their first time (p.199).when it was their first time (p.199).when it was their first time (p.199).

IF THE AUTHOR IS NOT NAMED IN A SIGNAL PHRASE,

PLACE THE AUTHORS LAST NAME, THE YEAR OF

PUBLICATION,AND THE PAGE NUMBER IN

PARENTHESIS AFTER THE QUOTE.

She stated, Students often have difficulty

using APA style, But she did not offer an

explanation as to why (Jones,1998, p.99)

LONG QUOTATIONS

Joness (1998) study found the following

Students often have difficulty using APA

style, especially when it was their

first time citing sources. This difficult

could be attributed to the fact that manystudents failed to purchase a style

Manual or to ask their teacher for

help. (p.199)

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