HU 2900: HUA Project Center Preparation: London: APA Citations

Resources for the 7th Edition (2020) formatting rules for APA citations:

APA Citations: Part 1

This video covers the following topics:

• What is APA?
• How to format APA citations for your reference list

APA Citations: Part 2

This video covers the following topics:

• How to format in-text citations in APA Style
• Where to find more information about APA citations

Books:

• Basic Format:
  • Authors' Last name, First Initial. (Year). Book title: Subtitle. (Edition) [if other than the 1st]. Publisher.
• Examples:
  • Brader, T. (2006). Campaigning for hearts and minds: How emotional appeals in political ads work. University of Chicago Press.
  • Miller, T. E., & Schuh, J. H. (2005). Promoting reasonable expectations: Aligning student and institutional views of the college experience. Jossey-Bass.

Online Articles:

• Basic Format:
  • Author’s Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Article title. Name of Journal/Magazine/Newspaper, Volume number(Issue number), Page numbers. DOI or URL 
• Online Journal Article with DOI Assigned:
  • Basic Format: 
    • Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(issue number), page range. https://doi.org/10.0000/0000
  • Example:
    • Denhart, H. (2008). Deconstructing barriers: Perceptions of students labeled with learning disabilities in higher education. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 41(6), 483-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219408321151 
• Online Journal Article with no DOI Assigned:
  • Basic Format:
    • Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(issue number). URL
  • Example: 
    • von Busch, O., & Palmas, K. (2016). Designing consent: Can design thinking manufacture democratic capitalism? Organizational Aesthetics, 5(2), 10-24. https://oa.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/oa/article/view/66 
• Newspaper Article Found on a Newspaper's Website:
  • Basic Format:
    • Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Newspaper. 
      http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/ 
  • Example:
    • Zernike, K. (2016, February 29). Testing for joy and grit? Schools nationwide push to measure students’ emotional skills. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/testing-for-joy-and-grit-schools-nationwide-push-to-measure-students-emotional-skills.html?_r=0 

Theses & Dissertations

• Basic Format
  • Author Last Name, First Initials. (Year). Title of dissertation or thesis (Publication No.) [Doctoral dissertation or master’s thesis, Name of Institution Awarding Degree]. Database Name. UR.
• Example:
  • Cooper, B. S. (2018). Interactive planning and sensing for aircraft in uncertain environments with spatiotemporally evolving threats (Publication No. etd-042219-162643) [Doctoral dissertation, Worcester Polytechnic Institute]. Digital WPI. https://digital.wpi.edu/show/8p58pg31m

IQPs & MQPs

• Format:
  • Author Last Name, First Initials. (Year). Title of IQP or MQP [Undergraduate interactive qualifying project or Undergraduate major qualifying project, Name of Institution Awarding Degree]. Database Name. URL
• Example:
  • Frey, J. P., Kendrick, R., Lowell, J. M., & Rothermel, J. M. (2006). Energy profiling for off-grid energization solutions in Namibia [Undergraduate interactive qualifying project, Worcester Polytechnic Institute]. Digital WPI. https://digital.wpi.edu/show/bg257f381

In-text citations are included in the body of the work when you quote, paraphrase, or otherwise refer to a source.

• In a parenthetical citation, the author and year are both written in parentheses after the cited information. Example:

  • With webcams and remotely operated cat toys, the Bideawee shelter in New York City gave cat lovers the chance to play with cats without having to visit the shelter (Grossman, 2011).

• In a narrative citation, the name of the author is included in the text of the sentence, and the year is written in parentheses after the author’s name. Example: 

  • Grossman (2011) described how the Bideawee shelter in New York City used webcams and remotely operated toys to give cat lovers the chance to play with cats without having to visit the shelter.

Page Numbers

Include page numbers whenever you quote a source. Page numbers are not required for paraphrase citations, but you may want to include page numbers when citing a long work. Page numbers help direct readers quickly to the relevant information. Examples: 

• When selecting a cat at an animal shelter, adopters prefer active cats (Fantuzzi et al., 2010, p. 179).

• Fantuzzi et al. (2010) found that when selecting a cat at an animal shelter, adopters prefer active cats (p. 179).

• Free-ranging cats “should rarely be malnourished if adequate numbers of prey are available” (Spotte, 2014, p. 137).

• According to Spotte (2014), free-ranging cats “should rarely be malnourished if adequate numbers of prey are available” (p. 137).

Number of Authors

The format of the in-text citation will change depending on the number of authors the source has. For one author, list the last name of the author and the year of publication. For two authors, list the last names of both authors and the year of publication. For three or more authors, list the last name of the first author followed by the phrase “et al.” which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase “et alia,” which means “and others.”