APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of Publication). Title of article: Capital after colon. Title of Journal, Volume(Issue),Page Range. URL or DOI
Paper
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of Publication). Title of book: Capital for subtitle. (Edition ed.). Publisher Name.
eBook
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of Publication). Title of book: Capital for subtitle. Publisher Name. http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Newspaper. http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document. Site name. http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
Examples retrieved from Purdue OWL: APA Formatting
Style influenced by Citation Styles, UWM Libraries
If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by "p." for a single page and "pp." for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash). You can introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author's last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses.
According to Jones (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
Jones (1998) found "students often had difficulty using APA style" (p. 199); what implications does this have for teachers?
If you do not include the author’s name in the text of the sentence, place the author's last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.
She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers. APA guidelines, however, do encourage including a page range for a summary or paraphrase when it will help the reader find the information in a longer work.
According to Jones (1998), APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners.
APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
Examples retrieved from Purdue OWL: APA Formatting
Style influenced by Citation Styles, UWM Libraries
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