Authors examples
Year/Date examples
Title (Book, Article, Essay, Web page) examples
Editions examples
Editors and Translators examples
Number of Authors | Reference Example |
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1 author, no middle initial | Bartle, L. |
2 authors, with middle initial | Bartle, L., & Caballero, C. |
3-7 authors | Bartle, L., Caballero, C., Kong, L., & Lumley, R. |
8+ authors* | Bartle, L., Caballero, C., Kong, L., Lumley, R., Magedanz, S., Petry, B., ... Singleton, B. |
Corporate Author | American Psychological Association. |
Government Author | Center for Disease Control. |
Anonymous | Do not provide an author, but use the title as the author and list it alphabetically. |
*Seven authors is the most listed in an APA reference. For 8 or more authors, provide the first six, followed by an ellipsis then the last name listed on the source. The ellipsis may be ... or . . . as long as it is consistent. For corporate or government authors, place them in the author position in title case and list them alphabetically by the first word in the name. For government authors, use the agency/department/division listed on the document as the author.
Year/Date | Reference Example |
Journal article or book | (2017). |
Monthly magazine | (2017, October). |
Weekly magazine, daily newspaper, or Web page | (2017, October 5). |
Undated | (n.d.). |
Journal or Magazine article that uses a season rather than a month | (2017, Summer). |
Title Variations | Reference Examples |
Title | Exploring own-age biases in deception detection. |
Title with Sub-title | Smart talk: Contemporary interviewing. |
Title with Proper Nouns and Acronyms | Effective use of United States government documents at NASA. |
Edition Variations | Reference Examples |
*2nd edition | (2nd ed.). |
Revised edition | (Rev. ed.). |
5th revised edition | (5th Rev. ed.). |
*Editions are used for books and are placed after the title but before the period ending the title. No part of the edition note is italicized. The word edition is abbreviated to ed., kept in lowercase.
Editor and Translator Variations | Reference Examples |
1 editor and one author for entire book | (L. Bartle, Ed.). placed after the title of the book |
1 editor and no author for entire book | Bartle, L. (Ed.). |
2 editors and no author for entire book | Bartle, L., & Barrett, B. (Eds.). |
3+ editors and no author for entire book | Bartle, L., Barrett, B., & Schlesselman, G. (Eds.). |
1 editor when referencing an essay in an edited book | In L. Bartle (Ed.), |
2 editors when referencing an essay in an edited book | In L. Bartle & B. Barrett (Eds.), |
3+ editors when referencing an essay in an edited book | In L. Bartle, B. Barrett, & B. Quarton (Eds.), |
1 translator for a book | (L. Bartle, Trans.). placed after the English-language title |
2 translators for a book | (L. Bartle & B. Singleton, Trans). placed after the English-language title |
Author of essay, with translator, and an editor for a book | Magedanz, S. (1998). How to librarian well. (E. Sorrell, Trans.). In B. Quarton (Ed.), All the best of librarianship (pp. 88-101). New York: Happy Publisher. |