Briefing Research paper

APA Citation Style LHM 9/05 GENERAL FORMS –

Journal Article in Paper or Microfiche: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article: Subtitle, if given. Title of

Periodical, xx, pp-pp. Journal Article from a Database: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article: Subtitle, if given. Title of

Periodical, xx, pp-pp. Retrieved September 20, 2005, from EBSCO Academic Search Premier database.

General Website: Author, A. A. (date). Title of page, article, or information item. Retrieved September 20, 2005,

from http://Web address. General Book: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of book: Subtitle, if given. Location:

Publisher. Chapter or Article in an Edited Book: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Title of chapter or article: Subtitle, if given. In A. Editor, B.

Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of Book (pp. xx-xx). Location: Publisher. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON APA CITATION STYLE: APA Official Site— http://www.apastyle.org/ Long Island University – B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm OWL—Online Writing Lab at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html UW Madison Writing Center http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html Cornell Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/apa.html EXAMPLES: Book by a single author: Ezell, M. J. M. (1993). Writing women’s literary history. Baltimore, MD:

Johns Hopkins University Press.

An edited book: If you are citing the entire book, how it is put together or the argument it makes as a whole, use-- Denton, J. (Ed.). (1999). Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and

renaissance Europe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. More commonly, you will be citing a particular article or chapter within the edited book, so use-- Binski, P. (1999). Hierarchies and orders in English royal images of

power. In J. Denton (Ed.), Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and renaissance Europe (pp. 74-93). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

E-books from netLibrary: Forgas, J. P. (2001). Handbook of affect and social cognition. Mahwah,

NJ: Erlbaum. Retrieved September 5, 2002, from netLibrary: http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=52717

Books in different editions or books with multiple authors: Campbell, N. A., Reece, J. B., & Mitchell, L. J. (1999). Biology (5th

ed.). Menlo Park, CA: Cummings. Book with no author or editor: Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary (10th ed.). (1993). Springfield,

MA: Merriam-Webster. Basic scholarly article in paper or microfiche: Reiss, J. (1995). Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Explicator, 53, 200-

202.

-or, if issues are paginated separately- Kodat, C. G. (2000). Dancing through the Cold War: The case of The

Nutcracker. Mosaic, 33(3), 1-17. Basic scholarly article from a database: Reiss, J. (1995). Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Explicator, 53, 200-

201. Retrieved July 15, 2002, from EBSCO Academic Search Premier database.

Basic articles from magazines or newspapers: Sterling, B. (1999, March 29). A century of science fiction. Time, 153,

200-202. Retrieved July 15, 2002, from EBSCO Academic Search Premier database.

Young, J. R. (2002, June 14). New owners of netLibrary try to make e-book

offerings more appealing. Chronicle of Higher Education, 48, p. A32.