Examples of APA Style for Reference List

• All citations should be double spaced.
• Indent after the first line.
• Entries are not numbered.
• Alphabetize by the first word of the entry.

Books (print)

Books by a Single Author / Editor:

Sternberg, E. (2000). Just business: Business ethics in action. New York: Oxford

University Press.

Book by Multiple Authors / Editors:

Ermann, M. D., Williams, M. B., & Shauf, M. S., (Eds.). (1997). Computers, ethics,

and society. New York: Oxford University Press.

Book by More than Six Authors / Editors:

Roeder, K., Howdeshell, J., Fulton, L., Lochhead, M., Craig, K., Peterson, R., et al.

(1967). Nerve cells and insect behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press.

Book / Group Author

Utah Association of Counties. (1981). Utah county facts book. Salt Lake City, UT:

Utah Association of Counties.

Books No Author Identified

CQ guide to current American government. (1990). Washington, DC:

Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Book / Revised Edition

Scambray, J., McClure S., & Kurtz, G. (2001). Hacking exposed: Network

security, secrets and solutions. (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA:

Osborne/McGraw Hill.

Articles from Print Magazines, Journals & Newspapers

Journal Article (separate pagination/ with issue numbers)

Daniel, J. B. (2000). Function or frill: The quilt as storyteller in Toni

Morrison's Beloved. Midwest Quarterly 41 (3), pp. 321-330.

Journal Article (continuous pagination/ no issue numbers)

Yeh, M. (1996). The "cult of poetry" in contemporary China. Journal of

Asian Studies 55, pp. 51-80.

Magazine Article

Zakaria, F. (2001, December 31). The new rules of engagement. Newsweek

139, pp. 66-70.

Newspaper Article

Rosenberg, G. (1997, March 31). Electronic discovery proves an effective

legal weapon. New York Times, p. D5.

Article without an Author (alphabetize by title)

Inside Al-Qaeda. (2002, January 21). Time 21, pp. 46-7.

Articles from Databases

Magazine Article from a Database

Barlett, D. L., Steele, J. B., Karmatz, L., & Levinstein, J. (2001, December 10).

Snow job. Sports Illustrated 95 (23), pp. 78-91. Retrieved January

13, 2002, from EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite database.

Newspaper Article from a Database

Roberts, S. (2001, September 30). Olympics: Shadow cast on Olympic flame.

New York Times, p. 1 (sec. 8). Retrieved January 13, 2002, from

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe database.

 

Journal Article from a Database

Kammen, M. (1996). Culture and the state in America. Journal of American

History 83 (3), p. 791-814. Retrieved January 13, 2002, from JSTOR

database.

Articles from Chapter and Books

Online Encyclopedia (no author)

Fungus. (2002). In Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Retrieved January 19,

2002, from http://www.britannica.com.

Print Encyclopedia

Van Uitert, E. (1996). Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van. In Turner, J. (Ed.), Dictionary

of art (pp. 856-62). London: Macmillan.

Print Dictionary

Noon. (1989). In Simpson, J. A. & Weiner, E. S. C. (Eds.), Oxford English

dictionary (2nd ed.) (pp. 508-9). Oxford: Clarenden Press.

Internet Sites

Article in an Online-only Journal Not from a subscription database!

Bambury, P. (1998) A taxonomy of Internet commerce. First Monday 3 (10).

Retrieved January 23, 2002, from http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_

10/bambury/index.html.

Online Journal Article based on a Print Periodical
Not from a subscription database!

Brooks, D. (2001). One nation, slightly divisible [Electronic version]. Atlantic

Monthly 288 (12). Retrieved January 23, 2002, from http://www.theatlantic.

com/issues/2001/12/brooks.htm.

 

Professional Site

Virginia Polytechnic Institute. (2001). Study skills self-help information.

Retrieved December 1, 2001, from http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html.

Personal Site

Hacken, R. (2001). Retrieved January 23, 2002, from http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/.

Government Site

U. S. Census Bureau. (2002). Retrieved January 25, 2002, from http://www.uscensus.gov/.

Organization Site

National Public Radio. (2002). Retrieved January 25, 2002, from http://www.npr.org/.

Commercial Site

Powell's.com. (2002). Powell's City of Books. Retrieved January 25, 2002, from

http://www.powells.com/.

Online Book

Clemens, S. L. (1891). Roughing It. In Library of Congress, American Memory.

Retrieved April 26, 2001, from <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?

ammem/calbkbib:@field(TITLE+@band(Roughing+it.+)).

Scholarly Project

Willett, P. (Ed.). (1997). Victorian Women Writers Project. Retrieved April 26,

2001, from http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html.