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)

Periodicals: Journals, Magazines, Newspapers

Citing articles in journals with continuous pagination

Passons, W. (1967). Predictive validities of the ACT, SAT, and high school grades for first semester GPA and freshman courses. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 27, 1143-1144.

Citing articles in journals with non-continuous pagination

Sawyer, J. (1966). Measurement and prediction, clinical and statistical. Psychological Bulletin, 66(3), 78-100.

Because pagination begins anew with each issue of this journal, it is necessary to include the issue number in parentheses after the volume number. Note that there is a comma between the issue number and the page numbers, but no comma between the volume number (in italics) and the issue number.

Citing articles in monthly periodicals with no volume number

Chandler-Crisp, S. (1988, May) Aerobic writing: A writing practice model. Writing Lab Newsletter, 9-11.

Citing articles in weekly periodicals

Kauffmann, S. (1993, October 18). On films: Class consciousness. The New Republic, 30.

Newspaper articles (note that p. or pp. is placed before page numbers in newspapers) (print version)

Monson, M. (1993, September 16). Urbana firm obstacle to office project. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, pp. A1, A3, A5-A7.

(online version: give the URL of the home page when the online version of the article is available by search to avoid nonworking URLs)

Monson, M. (1993, September 16). Urbana firm obstacle to office project. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. Retrieved from http://www.news-gazette.com

No author identified

Clinton puts “human face” on health-care plan. (1993, September 16). The New York Times, p. B1.

Multiple Authors

When a work has up to (and including) seven [5th edition listed only first six authors.] authors, cite all authors (last name followed by initials). Place a comma after the last name of each author and after that author’s initial(s). Place an ampersand (&) before the last author.

Festinger, L., Cramer, C. J., Riecken, H., Boyd, E. C., Cohen, E. G., Gill, T. G., & Schachter, S. (1956). When prophecy fails. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Grice, H. P., & Gregory, R. L. (1968). Early language development. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Eight or more authors:

Provide last names and initials of first six authors, insert three ellipsis points, and add the last author’s name. [5th edition added et al. after sixth author.]

Roeder, K., Howard, J., Fulton, L., Lochhead, M., Craig, K., Peterson, R., . . . Boyd, E. C. (1967). Nerve cells and insect behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.