Academic Disclaimer: In the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association there are 55 pages explaining the rules for citations of 96 different document types. This document presents several of the more common citations. For more examples see the 6th ed. of the APA Publication Manual. The Publication Manual is the final authority. NOTE: Reference page citations must be double spaced. Due to space restrictions, the provided examples are single spaced.
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Book
Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Year of publication). Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Burkhead, M. D. (2006). The search for the causes of crime: A history of theory in criminology. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Document from a website
Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Year of publication). Title of document. Retrieved from URL
Hasan, M., & Coyle, D. (2009). Better banks. Retrieved from http://accounting.smartpros .com/x64402.xml Document from an organization’s website
Name of Organization. (Year of publication.) Title of article. Retrieved from URL
National Association for the Education of Young Children. (2008). Early childhood literacy. Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/ece/critical/literacy.asp Journal article with doi number from a database or from internet
Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Year of publication). Vol.(Issue), page numbers. doi number: Title of article. Journal Title,
Kaplan, S. (2008). A new U.S. policy for Syria: Fostering political change in a divided Middle East Policy, 15(3), 107-121. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4967.2008.00362.x Journal article (in print)
state.
Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Year of publication). Title of article. Journal Title, Vol.(Issue), page numbers.
Hayes, M. (2006). Get close to your clients. Journal of Accountancy, 201(6), 49-52. Magazine article with no doi from