Citation Guides: APA

 

Basic Format for Books

Author, A. A. (Year of Publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher name. DOI (if avaliable)

 

Edited Book with no Author

Editor. E. E. (Ed.). (Year of Publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher name. DOI (if avaliable)

 

Edited Book with Author(s)

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (E. Editor, Ed.). Publisher. DOI (if available)

 

Basic Format for Articles

(If DOI is not avaliable, a URL can be used.)

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

 

Article in Print Journal

Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(3), 5–13.

 

Article in Electronic Journal 

Baniya, S., & Weech, S. (2019). Data and experience design: Negotiating community-oriented digital research with service-learning. Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, 6(1), 11–16. https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284316979

 

Wikipedia Article

Wikipedia articles in APA have a special citation format used outside of the basic article format. 

Title of article. (Year, Month Date). In Wikipedia. URL of archived version of page

 

Data Sets

Lastname, F. M. or Name of Group (Year). Title of dataset (Version No.) [Data set]. Publisher. DOI or URL

 

Website

If the site was written by a group, use the group name in place of the author

Lastname, F. M. (Year, Month Date). Title of page. Site Name. URL

 

If the date of publication is not listed, use the abbreviation (n.d.). 

 

AI

Author. (Date).Title (Month Day version) [Additional Descriptions ]. Source

 

 

Youtube or Other Streaming Video

Last Name, F. M. [Username]. (Year, Month Date). Title of video [Video]. Streaming Service. URL

 

X (Twitter) Post

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