APA Guidelines: References Page

Books one author: Gardner, H. (1993). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences. New York: Note that author’s last name Basic Books. comes first. Date is in two to six authors: brackets. Cargill, O., Charvat, W., & Walsh, D. D. (1966). The publication of academic writing. The title is always italicized. New York: Modern Language Association. Note the colon no author given: between Experimental psychology. (1938). New York: Holt.

WebPages web site of an organization or government: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. (2001). Glacial habitat restoration areas. Note that if there Retrieved from http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/hunt/hra.htm is no date provided, Midwest League. (n.d.). Pitching, individual records. Retrieved from (n.d.) becomes the date. http://www.midwestleague.com/indivpitching.html Note the difference a personal homepage: (retrieval date is included due to possibility of change) between Duncan, D. (1998, August 1). Homepage. Retrieved July 30, 2007 from title and institutio n/ author. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/1652/

NOTE: The URL should not be underlined. Sometimes underlining appears automatically when a URL is displayed in a browser or in Word. Remove the underlining before submitting your paper. Note that the article title comes before the name of Articles the newspaper or magazine. Also, newspaper: months are not Monson, M. (1993, September 16). Urbana firm obstacle to office project. The abbreviated. You may not have a “day” provided; Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, pp. 1, 8. simply write the month. The magazine: newspaper/magazine Raloff, J. (2001, May 12). Lead therapy won't help most kids. Science News, 159, 292.

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Article in a journal

Mellers, B. A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences. Psychological Note: List only Bulletin, 126, 910-924. the volume number if the Klimoski, R., & Palmer, S. (1993). The ADA and the hiring process in organizations. periodical uses continuous Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 45(2), 10-36. pagination throughout a particular General Information volume. If each issue begins No author: Place the title in the author position… with page 1, then list the issue number as well.

Oil discovered off Newfoundland. (1982, April 6) Evening Telegram, p. A1.

No title: Use square brackets to indicate that the "title" is a description of the content, not a true title…

Bordi, F. (1993). [Laboratory results from a study of rats]. Unpublished raw data.

No date: If no date is available, write (n.d.)…

Deutsch, F. M.(n.d.). Husbands at home: Survival techniques. Boston: Scribners.

 APA bibliographies are titled “References” (not “Works Cited” or “Bibliography”). Center this title on a new page.  Alphabetize your entries according to the first letter in each entry  Double space all entries, even within an entry  Citing your quoted or paraphrased facts IN TEXT (ie as you go along) requires a different, shortened format. Please refer to the webpage below for details.

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