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APA Style Referencing
Unless your lecturer instructs otherwise, Lincoln University undergraduate students are advised to follow the APA Style. For the definitive APA style, postgraduates, researchers and academic staff should refer to the following: American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. Z253 Pub 2001 American Psychological Association. (2007). APA style guide to electronic references. Washington, DC: Z253 APA 2007 Author. Additional help: Library staff at the iZone Help Desk will help with referencing questions. Referencing and Citation page of Library Web. The Student Learning Centre provides workshops and one-to-one appointments on academic writing, including referencing. Talk to the receptionist in H130A about what they offer.
Books, theses or statutes
Basic format (enter (n.d.) if no date of publication is available)
Author(s). (year of publication). Title of book: Subtitle of book. City of publication, Country or U.S. State abbreviation: Publisher. Kaufman, C., Perlman, R., & Speciner, M. (1995). Network security: Private communication in a public world. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Longman dictionary of contemporary English (4th ed.). (2003). Harlow, England: Longman. Statistics New Zealand. (1998). Samoan people in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Author. Collette, R. L. (1990). Harvesting techniques. In R. E. Martin & G. J. Flick (Eds.), The seafood industry (pp. 471-526). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Persley, D. M. (Ed.). (1992). Diseases of fruit crops (2nd ed.). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: Department of Primary Industries. Sadler, P. (2003). Strategic management (2nd ed.). Sterling, VA: Kogan Page. Retrieved from ebrary database. Bergmann, P. G. (1993). Relativity. In The new encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. 26, pp.
Citations: More than one work cited at once, different authors List citations in the same order as they appear in the reference list, separating with a semicolon (;) as found in recent studies (Hirst & Ferree, 1995; Tucker, 1994)