APA Citation Style

Follow these examples of APA Style by type of source:

• Book
• Book - With Subtitle
• Editor & No Author
• Chapter or Section of a Book - With an Author
• Chapter or Section of a Book - No Author
• Electronic Book (eBook)
• Dictionary Entry - No Author or Editor

Parts of a book citation:

Boylston, S. (2009). Designing sustainable packaging. Laurence King. 

Author(s). (Publication Year). Title of book. Publisher. 

APA 7th edition rules: Book

• Do not list the publisher's location
• Write publisher's name as seen on the work
• When the author is the same as the publisher, omit the publisher's name from the Source element

Reference page:

Boylston, S. (2009). Designing sustainable packaging. Laurence King.

In-text:

Boylston (2009) found . . . . (p. 35).    OR    . . . . (Boylston, 2009, p. 35).

See pp. 295-296, 321-325  in the APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition rules: Book with Subtitle

• Capitalize only the first word of the title, subtitle, and any proper nouns.

Reference page:

Erfurt-Cooper, P., & Cooper, M. (2009). Health and wellness tourism: Spas and hot springs. NBN International.

In-text:

Erfurt-Cooper and Cooper (2009) compared . . . . (p. 45).    OR   . . . . (Erfurt-Cooper & Cooper, 2009, p. 45).

See pp. 329-330  in the APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition rules: Editor & No author

• If a book has no author but has an editor, list the inverted editor(s) name in the author element
• Treat the in-text citations as one would for the author element

Reference page:

Crocker, P. R. E. (Ed.). (2011). Sport and exercise psychology: A Canadian perspective (2nd ed.). Pearson.

In-text:

According to Crocker (2011). . .    OR     . . . . (Crocker, 2011, p. 3055).

See pp. 287, 322 in the APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition rules: Chapter or Section of a Book - With an author

• Works with editors need their names listed in the source element beginning with the word "In" 
• For edited works with volume numbers and page numbers, include the information in parentheses in the following order (separated by commas):
  • edition
  • volume number
  • page numbers
• If a resource can only be accessed through a centralized database, list the database in the source element

Reference page:

In-text:

Travers (2011) determined . . . . (p. 3055).    OR    . . . (Travers, 2011, p. 3055).

See pp. 295, 326 in the APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition rules: Chapter or Section of a Book - No Author

• Treat the editor(s) as the author(s)
• Identify editor(s) within the author element in the reference entry (e.g. Ed. for singular or Eds. for multiple editors)

Reference page:

In-text:

Anderson et al. (1994) consider...(p. 1497).     OR  . . . (Anderson et al., 1994, p. 1497).

See pp. 322, 326 in the APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition rules: eBook

• Instructions vary depending on whether a book is being cited wholly or is a part of a whole
• For the example below, the whole book is being cited as opposed to a singular chapter/section
  • If citing a chapter of the book in the example below, the title of the chapter needs to be in the title element
• The example below is also a book in a conceptual series, and consequently does not need to have the series title in the reference entry
• If citing from an audiobook, then in the reference list entry have [Audiobook] in brackets after the title element followed by a period.
• If an eBook was reprinted/reformatted from the original source, include the original source information after the Source element in parentheses
  • Author, A. (2015). Title element.* Source (Original work published in 1984)
  • *If citing a work that is whole (e.g. a whole book), italicize the title element.
• if an eBook was translated from the original source, include the translator(s) name after the title element in parentheses.
  • Author, A. (Date). Title element (J. Smith, Trans.). Source element

Reference page:

In-text:

Veletsianos (2010) stated . . . . (p. 23).    OR    . . . (Veletsianos, 2010, p. 23).

See pp. 322-323, 326,  in the APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition rules: Dictionary Entry - No Author or Editor

• If no publisher or editor is on the work, record the publisher's name in the author element
• The title of the entry, needs to be recorded in the title element as seen in the example below

Reference page:

In-text:

Merriam-Webster (2007) defines “Myocardial Infarction” as . . . . (p. 582).    OR   . . . (Merriam-Webster, 2007, p. 582).

See p. 328 in the APA Publication Manual

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/000165-000