This guide is intended as a quick reference to citing in a reference list some of the most common types of materials in the American Psychological Association publication format. For citations in the text, you should consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (BF76.7 .P83 2010, Watson and Anschutz Reference Desks) directly.

Check with your instructor to learn more about the citation style required for the course/discipline.

Example citations

Book by a single author:

Bernstein, T. M. (1965). The careful writer: A modern guide to English usage. New York: Athenaeum.

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Book by two authors:

Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

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Edited book:

Gibbs, J. T., & Huang, L. N. (Eds.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological interventions with minority youth. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Book, no author or editor:

Encyclopedia of photography. (1984). New York: Crown.

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Multivolume edited work:

Koch, S. (Ed.). (1959-1963). Psychology: A study of science (Vols. 1-6). New York: McGraw-Hill.

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Article or chapter in edited book:

Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Rodeiger III & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory & consciousness (pp. 309-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Chapter in a volume in a series:

Maccoby, E. E., & Martin, J. (1983). Socialization in the context of the family: Parent-child interaction. In P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.) & E. M. Hetherington (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 4. Socialization, personality, and social development (4th ed., pp. 1-101). New York: Wiley.

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Journal article:

Craner, P. M. (1991). New tool for an ancient art: The computer and music. Computers and the Humanities, 25, 303-313.

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Magazine article:

Posner, M. I. (1993, October 29). Seeing the mind. Science, 262, 673-674.

Newspaper article:

New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart failure. (1993, July 15). The Washington Post, p. A12.

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Article in a reference book:

Brakeley, T. C. (1950). Mourning songs. In M. Leach & J. Fried (Eds.) Funk and Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology, and legend (Vol. 2, pp. 755-757). New York: Crowell.

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World Wide Web site:

Taylor, T. (1998, September 1). Basic CGOS style. Retrieved March 26, 2000, from http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html.

NOTE: The date in parentheses is the date of last update or copyright (if available).

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Journal article from full-text database:

Tan, H. K., Jones, G. V., & Watson, D. G. (2009). Encouraging the perceptual underdog: Positive affective priming of nonpreferred local-global processes. Emotion, 9(2), 238-247. doi:10.1037/a0014713

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Learn more about Citing and Documenting Your Sources

This guide was compiled by Mary Miller, Watson Library Reference Dept., University of Kansas Libraries, with assistance from Reference Department staff and Pat McQueeney, Writing Consulting, University of Kansas, November 1996. Revised by Nitzan Meltzer, KU Writing Center, September 2009.

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