care centers. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60, 489-493. Journal title Volume number Pages Author Date of Publication Article title Magazine title Issue # Sheehy, G. (2012, November 12). The urge to serve. Newsweek, 160(20), 37-45. Volume # Examples for Creating a Reference Page Using APA Format Type of Source Reference Entry Tips Single Author Book Murray, C. (2012). Coming apart:The state of white America, 1960-2010. New York, NY: Crown Forum. Two Authors Book Munton, J., & McLeod, J. (2011). The Con: How scams work, why you’re vulnerable, and how to protect yourself. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield. Do not change the order of the authors’ names. Cite both names each time the reference occurs in the text. to Five Authors Haslam, G. W., Haslam, A. R., & Chon, R. (2005) Workin’ man blues: Country music in California. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books Do not change the order of the authors’ names. Cite all the names the first time the reference occurs in the text; in subsequent citations, include only the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year. Two Works by the Same Author Zinn, H. (1999). People’s history of the United States. New York, NY: Harper Collins. Zinn, H. (2011). Howard Zinn on race. New York, NY: Seven Stories. Order by earlier year first Multiple Works by the Same Author in the Same Year Grisham, J. (2012a). Calico Joe. New York, NY: Doubleday. Grisham, J. (2012b). The racketeer. New York, NY: Doubleday. Organize alphabetically by title of article or book chapter in reference list and add a lower case letter after the year the work was published as demonstrated in the example to the left.
Article from Electronic Databases Clemmitt, M. (2012, September 21). Assessing the new health care law. CQ Researcher, 22, 789-812. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ The permalink may be as seen on the left, or long as seen in example above Article from Electronic Databases - Preferred format for NEIT’s Humanities & Social Science Dept. Khoury-Kassabri, M. (2012). The relationship between teacher self-efficacy and violence toward students as mediated by teacher's attitude. Social Work Research, 36(2), 127-139. Retrieved January 23, 2013, from Please note that the date the source was retrieved is included. This is not part of APA formatting, but is the preferred format for NEIT’s Humanities and Social Science Department. Check with your instructor about this requirement. World Wide Web Documents Online Newspaper Article Rogow, G., & McKay, P.A. (2009, September 2). ADP report leaves traders on defensive. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 5, 2009, from Prepare the reference in the same way as previous ones, but include the date that you retrieved the sources the documents could be moved, changed, or removed entirely from the Internet. The final element of the reference should be the web address of the article. Podcast Radulovic, V. (Host). (2008, November 12). Greener computers podcast [Audio podcast]. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from Blog (also as Web Log Post) Dell’Amore, C. (2009, August 26). How to recycle your e-junk [Web log post]. National Geographic. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/thegreenguide/ Wide Web – Document Manjoo, F. (2012, January 21). The happiness machine: How Google became such a great place to work. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from World Wide Web Article – No Author Listed New US rooftop wind turbine lab. (2009). Retrieved September 2, 2009, from
In-Text: Multiple Authors, Citing a Specific Part of a Source The authors showed that there are many different ways people can protect themselves from identity theft (Munton & McLeod, 2011, pp. 173-175) both electronically and in the physical sense, such as shredding important documents. In-Text: No Listed Author According to Senator John Kerry, the new rooftop wind turbine lab will help people to decide if turbines can work in an urban setting (“New US Rooftop,” 2009). For in-text citations, article titles should be in quotation marks In-Text: No Listed Author (example 2) The book Coming Apart:The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012) was provided as evidence in this case. Capitalize book titles in citations In-Text: Punctuation of Quotes Murray (2012) said, “Every society more complex than bands of hunter-gatherers has had an upper class and, within that upper class, an elite who ran the key institutions” (p. 20). In-Text: Author has two or more works listed in the reference list Zinn (1999) insisted that the concept of race in America is a tangled web brought on by the complex forward movement of history. He stressed that this web is too complex to properly sort through and that our current society has the ability to change its current outlook on race by letting go of as much of the past as it chooses to (2011). In-Text: Personal Communications, such as an interview When interviewed, the patient indicated that he had experienced increased pain over the last three months (S.L. Smith, personal communication, April 8, 2012). Or S.L. Smith (personal communication, April 8, 2012) indicated that the pain had increased over the last three months. Quote within a quote asserts in her book Chicken Little that "without a doubt, the chicken came before the egg" (as cited in Smith, 2005). In this example the student read a journal article written by John Smith. In the article, John Smith includes a quote from Jane Adams' book Chicken Little (which the students did not use in their research). The student would like to include Jane Adams' quote in his/her own paper. Include an entry for the source in hand (in this case the journal) in the reference list. In the parenthetical (in-text) citation after the quote, credit the original source (in this