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APA Style Guide (5th Edition)

APA Style Guide (5th Edition)
Print Sources | Electronic Sources

(Please note: Your actual works cited and/or bibliography page should be double-spaced. Single spacing is used on this page to save paper for those printing.)

I. Print sources
Book
Beck, C. A. J., & Sales, B. D. (2001).
Family mediation:  Facts, myths, and future
prospects. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.

Article or chapter in an edited book

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

Journal article

Connel, B. (2004). Golf vs. love.
Golf Magazine, 47(2), 54.

Herman, L. M., Kuczaj, S. A., III, &
Holder, M. D. (1993). Responses
to anomalous gestural sequences
by a language-trained dolphin:
Evidence for processing of
semantic relations and syntactic
information. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 122, 184-194.

Newspaper article

Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects
economic, social status. The Washington Post,
pp. A1, A4.

Government document

National Institute of Mental Health. (1990). Clinical
training in serious mental illness (DHHS
Publication No. ADM 90-1679). Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
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II. Electronic sources
Article or chapter from an edited netLibrary book

Turrittin, J. (2002). Colonial midwives
and modernizing childbirth in
French West Africa. In Giger, S.,
Musisi, N., & Allman, J. (Eds.),
Women in African colonial histories
(pp. 71-92). Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press. Retrieved August 16,
2004 from netLibrary database.

Article from an e-journal

Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7).
Cultivating positive emotions
to optimize health and well-being.
Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article
0001a.  Retrieved November 20, 2000, from
http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html

Daily newspaper article

Barnhart, T. (2004, August 15). College
football insider. The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, 18D. Retrieved August 16,
2004 from LexisNexis Academic database.

Article found through a database

Vannini, P. (2004). Will you marry me?
Journal of Popular Culture, 38(1), 169-186.
Retrieved August 16, 2004 from
Academic Search Complete database.

Document on a web site (Government agency)

United States Sentencing Commission.
(n.d.). 1997 sourcebook of federal
sentencing statistics.  Retrieved
December 8, 1999, from
http://www.ussc.gov/annrpt/1997/sbtoc97/htm
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This document was based on
American Psychological Association.  (2001).
Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association(5th ed.)
.
Washington, DC:  Author.
Please refer to this source for these and other examples.
See also http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
 
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