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Checklist for Journal Article Reference

APA Style: Checklist for Journal Article Reference
General guidelines for formatting reference list entries for journal articles in APA Style

Reference Examples

APA Style: Reference Examples
Examples of the most common works that writers cite are provided on this page; additional examples are available in the Publication Manual.

Book References

APA Style Book References
This page contains reference examples for books, including the following:
Whole authored book, whole edited book, republished book, with editor, book published with new foreword by another author, several volumes of a multivolume work. Use the same formats for both print books and ebooks. For ebooks, the format, platform, or device (e.g., Kindle) is not included in the reference.

References for Edited Books & Chapters

APA Style: Edited Books and Chapters
This page contains reference examples for chapters in edited books, including the following:
Chapter in an edited book; chapter in an edited book, reprinted from another book

Magazine References

APA Style: Magazine Article References
This page contains reference examples for magazine articles.

Newspaper References

APA Style: Newspaper References
This page contains reference examples for newspaper articles.

Citing Art

APA Style: Citing Art Work
This page contains reference examples for artwork, including the following:
Artwork in a museum or on a museum website, art exhibition, Informational museum plaque.

Citing Archival Documents

APA Style: Citing Archival Documents
Archival sources include letters, unpublished manuscripts, limited-circulation brochures and pamphlets, in-house institutional and corporate documents, clippings, and other documents, as well as such nontextual materials as photographs and apparatus, that are in the personal possession of an author, form part of an institutional collection, or are stored in an archive.

APA 7th edition: Print Sources

Below are examples of citations as they may appear in a references page. The examples are meant to be illustrative and do not encompass every possible situation. If you have questions about citing particular types of sources or dealing with particular situations, you should consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association located at the Research and Info Desk in Reed Library or contact a librarian, in person or via chat.

For capitalization:

Titles of periodicals (newspapers, journals, magazines) are capitalized as they appear in publication
Book titles and article titles have only the first word of the title (and of any subtitles), as well as proper nouns, capitalized.
Use single spaces between all words/items within each citation.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: Fort Lewis Reference Desk BF76.7 .P83 2020 7th ed.

APA 7th edition: Common Print Sources

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Print Book citation elements

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Magazine Article pages

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Newspaper page

APA 7th edition: More Print Examples

Edited Book

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Chapter from an Edited Book

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Translation (Book)

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Note: In-text citation would appear as: (Weisel, 1960/1986)

Newspaper Article without an Author

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Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia published regularly online

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Images from a Book

The APA Publication Manual does not specifically discuss images from a book, so this format is an adaption of the audiovisual ("Photographs", p 347) and edited book chapters and entries ("Chapter in an edited book, reprinted from another book", p 327) reference types.

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