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Citing and Writing Guide: APA Style 7th Edition

Information on writing and grammar, copyright, and citation styles.

Helpful APA Guides

Formatting References for Reference Page

Article

Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Vol.(Issue), page numbers. DOI 

NOTE: If an article does not have a DOI and is from a database, do NOT use the URL. The citation will end with the page numbers. If you received the article from its website INCLUDE the URL. 

Example: 

Greene, D. (2019). Illuminating shadowed histories: Centering black women's activism in Selma. Black Camera: The New Series, 10(2), 211-225.

Website

Author last name, First initial. (Year, Month Date). Title of web page. Web site name. URL

Example: Joy, A. (2020, April 27). Book of the Week: Black Is a Rainbow Color. CCBlogC. http://ccblogc.blogspot.com/2020/02/book-of-week-black-is-rainbow-color.html

Book

Last Name, First Initial. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher Name. DOI (if available)

Example:

Porath, J. (2016). Rejected princesses: Tales of history's boldest heroines, hellions & heretics. HarperCollins.

Book Chapter

Last Name, First Initial. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In E. Editor (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. pages of chapter).

Publisher.

Example: 

Reynolds, S. (1994). Regnal sentiments and medieval communities. In J. Hutchinson & A. D. Smith (Eds.), Nationalism (pp. 137-140). Oxford 

University Press. 

Film

Director Last Name, First Initial D. (Director). (Date of publication). Title of motion picture [Film]. Production company.

Example: Gerwig, G. (Director). (2019). Little Women [Film]. Columbia Pictures. 

In-Text Citations

For citing in-text quotations, the basic format is the author-date system within parentheses, for example: (Larson, 2003)

If you reference the author's name within your sentence, you only need to put the year within parentheses, for example: Brinkman and Jedinak (2014) argue the importance for young girls to have 'female superheroes' as role models.

If there are 3 or more authors you list use et al. for the citation. 

Aside from citing parenthetically, you should also include a References page at the end of your paper.