Citing Printed Sources | Citing Electronic Sources | Other Citing Links

Note: All references are to be double-spaced and the first line of the entry is flush with the left margin, and second and subsequent lines are indented 5 spaces. Only the first word of the title or subtitle and proper names are capitalized.  The examples in this guide follow the 5th edition (2001) of the American Psychological Association's style.  See the APA page for a complete list of fifth edition changes.  For complete information concerning citing, consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition) available at Northwest Reference AND Reserves at BF76.7 P83 2001.  
  

Citing Printed Sources 

• Book
  If it is not the first edition, the edition goes after the title. When a work has between two and six authors, cite all authors, placing an ampersand (&) before the last author's last name. When a work has more than six authors cite only the last name of the first author followed by "et al".
  
  Childs, J. (1973). Attachment and loss of cognition. New York: Psy Books.
  
  
• Journal Article
  
  Wong, A. (1995). Depression in the adult. Journal of Medical Psychology, (45) 3, 635-647.
  
  
• Magazine Article
  Give the date shown on the publication--month for monthlies and month and day for weeklies, and the volume number.
  
  Sanders, J. P. (2000, March 16). Hackers, how they do it. PC World, 8-9.
  
  
• Newspaper Article
  Use p. for page or pp. for pages only for newspaper articles or works in anthologies.  If it appears on discontinuous pages, give all page numbers, and separate them with a comma. 
  
  Rodriguez, M. (1999, September 16). Corporate spying. The New York Times, pp. A1, B8.
  
  

Citing Electronic Sources

• Entire Website
  Only provide the URL in the text.
  
  EPCC is a wonderful Web site for ESL students (http://www.epcc.edu).
  
  
• Book Chapter
  
  Darius, C. (1976). Euthanasia (Chapter 2). In S. Claire (Ed.), Social Psychology. Retrieved September 20, 2001 
          from the World Wide Web:  http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp
  
  
• Journal Article
  Cite as you would for printed articles, and add this statement: 
  Retrieved [month day, year] from [source/publisher] database [(name of database)] on the World Wide Web: http://www.url.com.
  
  Mills, N. (2001). Re-inventing life: xenotransplantation.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 42 (1),
         993-999.  Retrieved June 20, 2001, from FirstSearch database Health Source on the World Wide Web:       
         http://firstsearch.oclc.org/next=%first
  
  
• Database
  
  Ramirez, J. A. (1999). English only, USA contemplating adoption. International Education Journal, 8 (2), 52-59.
          (ERIC Accession No. EJ 562 820)



• Email
  
  Ambriz, Lorely (Ambrizl2001@yahoo.com). (2001, July 2). Borderlands Webpage. Email to Monica Wong  
          (wongm@aol.com).
  
 

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Citing Links

• American Psychological Association (definitive website for APA style)
  http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
  
  
• APA Style Essentials from AmoebaWeb (Vanguard University of Southern California)
  http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cfm?doc_id=796
  
  
• College of Saint Catherine Libraries
  http://www.stkate.edu/library/guides/style.html
  
  
• Columbia University Press Guide to Online Style (APA and MLA)
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/
  
  
• Edgewood College
  http://library.edgewood.edu/pdf/APA-style-guide.pdf

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Last Updated: February 02, 2006
Research guide created by  Lorely Ambriz lorelya@epcc.edu
Modified by Rachel Murphree murphree@elp.rr.com

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