Citing Other Documents

Other

Corporate authorship: the name of the group appears as the author

Alphabetize group authors by the first significant word of the name. Use the full name of the group or organization.

The Informing Science Institute. (2010). Summary of guidelines for formatting references according to the APA style guide: 6th edition. Retrieved from http://informingscience.org/APA.pdf (Include “The” here but alphabetize using “Informing”.)

Institute of Financial Education. (1982). Managing personal funds. Chicago: Midwestern.

Kimberly-Clark. (2002). Kimberly-Clark (Annual Report). Dallas, TX: Author.

Report from a University

Format this as you would a book. Put the name of the university as the publisher.

Postman, N. (1995). The end of education: Redefining the value of school. Santa Rosa, CA: Sonoma State University, Computer Science Department.

No author identified

If no author is identified, begin with the title. Alphabetize these entries by the first significant word in the title. For the parenthetical citation within the paper, use a few words of the title, or the whole title if it is short, in place of an author name.

Experimental psychology. (1938). New York: Holt.

The new approach to databases. (2004). Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science Institute. (Include “The” here but alphabetize using “new”.)

Relationship marketing's strategic array. (2002). Business Horizons, 45(1), 70–77.

Items in an anthology and chapters in edited book

Note that the author’s initials follow the last name, but the editor’s initials precede the last name.

O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107-123). New York: Springer.

Rubenstein, J. P. (1967). The effect of television violence on small children. In B. F. Kane Jr. & J. K. Moore (Eds.), Television and juvenile psychological development (pp. 112-134). New York: American Psychological Society.

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.

Reprinted or republished chapter

Clark, G., & Zimmerman, E. (1988). Professional roles and activities as models for art education. In S. Dobbs (Ed.), Research readings for discipline-based art education. Reston, VA: National Association of Education. (Reprinted from Studies in Art Education, 19 (1986), 34-39.)

Freud, S. (1961). The ego and the id. In J. Strachey (Ed. & Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 19, pp. 3-66). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1923).

Note: in the parenthetical citation give the original publication date and the date of republication (Freud, 1923/1961)