“References” Examples
Be sure to alphabetize your “References” page by author’s last name or the first word of the title if the author’s name is not available.
BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR
Beck, C. (2001). Family mediation: Facts, myths, and future prospects.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
BOOK WITH TWO AUTHORS
Beck, C. A. J., & Sales, B. D. (2001). Family mediation: Facts, myths, and
future prospects. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
BOOK WITH MORE THAN SIX AUTHORS
Wolchik, S. A., West, S. G., Sandler, I. N., Tein, J., Coatsworth, D., Lengua, L.,
et. al. (2000). Psychology: A study of science. New York: McGraw-Hill.
BOOK WITH CORPORATE AUTHOR
Research and Training Center on Independent Living. (1993). Guidelines for
reporting and writing about people with disabilities (4th ed.). New York:
Random.
BOOK WITH AN EDITOR
Gibbs, J. T. (Ed.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological interventions with
minority youth. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
BOOK WITH AN EDITOR IN ADDITION TO AN AUTHOR
Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities (F. W. Truscott &
F. L. Emory, Eds.). New York: Dover.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE OR DICTIONARY
Bergmann, P. G. (1993). Relativity. In The new encyclopedia Britannica
(Vol. 26, pp. 501-508). Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mellers, B. A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences.
Psychological Bulletin, 126, 910-924.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Kandel, E. R., & Squire, L. R. (2000, November 10). Neuroscience: Breaking
down scientific barriers to the study of brain and mind. Science, 290,
1113-1120.
NEWSLETTER ARTICLE
Brown, L. S. (1993, Spring). Antidomination training as a central component of
diversity in clinical psychology education. The Clinical Psychologist, 46,
83-87.
DAILY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, NO AUTHOR
New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart failure. (1993, July
15). The Washington Post, p. A12.
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ELECTRONIC SOURCES--WEB SITE
National Institutes of Mental Health. (2009). Depression. Retrieved from
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/complete-index.shtml.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES--DOI Available**
Clemmensen, K. E., & Michelsen, A. (2006, May 12). Integrated long-term
responses of an artic-alpine willow. Canadian Journal of Botany, 84,
831-43. doi:10.1139/B06-039.
**APA style requires that a DOI number be included for all electronic sources, if possible. You can find an article’s DOI on the first page of the article or at http://www.crossref.org/
ELECTRONIC SOURCES--No DOI Available
Gremillion, K. J. (1996). Early agricultural diet in Eastern North America:
Evidence from two Kentucky rockshelters. American Antiquity, 61(3),
520. Retrieved from Academic OneFile database.
Wildstrom, S. H. (1999, April 5). A big boost for net privacy. Business
Week, p. 23-25. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis Academic database.
Liswood, L. A. (1999, March 31). Gender politics and the Oval Office. Baltimore
Sun, p. 23A. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis Academic database.
Takano, T. & Nedergaard, M. (2009, January). Deciphering migraine. Journal of
Clinical Investigation, 119(1), 16-20. Retrieved from Health
and Wellness Resource Center database.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES--Electronic Books
Zeinart, K. (1998). Those courageous women of the Civil War. Brookfield, CN:
Millbrook Press. Available from http://www.netlibrary.com
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For other examples...
See the book Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by the American Psychological Association (from which this handout is excerpted). A copy is available in the Reference area, call number REF PE1478.P83 2010.
You may also look to these web sites for further citing examples:
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Writing APA Parenthetical Text Citations
In the APA documentation style, parenthetical citations within the text refer the reader to a list of sources (references) at the end of the text.
Author not named in your text
One critic of Milgram’s experiments said that the subjects “should have been fully informed of the possible effects on them” (Baumrind, 1968, p. 34).
Author named in your text
Baumrind (1968) said that the subjects in Milgram’s study “should have been fully informed of the possible effects on them” (p. 34).
A work with two authors
Pepinsky and DeStefano (1987) demonstrate that a teacher’s language often reveals hidden biases.
or
One study (Pepinsky & DeStefano, 1987) demonstrates hidden biases in teachers’ language.
A work with three to five authors
Pepinsky, Dunn, Rentl, and Corson (1993) further demonstrate the biases evident in gestures.
A work with six or more authors
One study (Rutter et al., 1996) attempts to explain these geographical differences in adolescent experience.
A work with a group author
An earlier prediction was even more somber (Lorenz Research, 1997).
An anonymous work
One article (“Right to Die,” 1976) noted that a death-row inmate may crave notoriety.
One of two or more works by the same author(s)
At about age seven, most children begin to use appropriate gestures to reinforce their stories (Gardner, 1973a).
Two or more works by different authors
Two studies (Herskowitz, 1989; Marconi & Hamblen, 1990) found that periodic safety instruction can dramatically reduce employees’ accidents.
An indirect source
Supporting data appear in a study by Wong (cited in Marconi & Hamblen, 1990).
An electronic source
Ferguson and Hawkins (1998) did not anticipate the “evident hostility” of participants (par. 6).
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References
Although each of the in-text references is brief, it will not be clear or accurate unless it refers readers to a specific and complete citation listed in the “References.” A sample citation should look like this:
References
Beck, C. (2001). Family mediation: Facts, myths, and future prospects.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
For other examples, as well as where to place the parenthetical reference within each sentence, see the book The Little, Brown Compact Handbook by Jane E. Aaron (from which the parenthetical text citations are taken). Also, please refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by the American Psychological Association – call number
REF
PE1478.P83.
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