APA Style

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APA

Basic Entry:

Books

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Format:

 Author, I. I. (Year). Title of book Publication:Publisher.

. Place of

Examples:

A Book by one author.

 Craig-Henderson, K. M. (2006). men in interracial relationships: What's love got to do with it?

Black New Brunswick: Transaction.  Gahart, B. L. (2006). Intravenous medications: A handbook for nurses and allied health professionals . St. Louis: Elsevier Mosby.

Examples

: A Book by two authors.

Groppelli, A. A. & Eshsan Nikbakht (2006). Haupauge: Barron’s.

Finance. (5 th ed.). Irwin, B. J., & Burckhardt, J. A. (2005). NCLEX-RN exam . New York: Simon & Schuster .

Example: A Book by (3+) authors.

Casper, S. E., Nissenbaum, S.W. Winship, M., & Groves, J. D. (2007). book in America: The Industrial book.

Chapel Hill: UNCP.

A history of the Treble, H. A., Treble, H. A., & King, M. (1930). Everyday life in Rome in the time of Caesar and Cicero . Oxford: The Clarendon Press.

Example

: A book by more than 6 authors:

Dinh, L. et al. (1996). Night again: Contemporary fiction from Vietnam. New York: Seven Stories Press.

Roeder, K., et al. (1967). Nerve cells and insect behavior .

Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

* When a work has more than six authors, use last name and initials of the first six authors followed by “et al” which stands for (and others) and the year.

Examples

: A book with an editor/s:

Davies, Jamie A. (Ed.). (2006). Branching morphogenesis . New York: Springer.

Lan, Yi-chen & Ungekar, Bhuvan (Eds.). (2006). Global integrated supply chain systems . Hershey: Ideal Group Pub.

Example: A book with no author or editor

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The American Heritage College Dictionay (4 th ed.). (2002). New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Example: Book, revised edition.

Touqueville, Alexis de (1945). Democracy in America (Rev. ed.). New York: A. A. Knopf.

Example

: eBooks  Moss, M. T. (2005). The emotionally intelligent nurse leader NetLibrary.

. San Francisco:John Wiley & Sons . Retrieved November 6, 2006, from  Biology of aggression . (2006). New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved November 6, 2006, from NetLibrary.

Basic Entry:

Periodicals

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Format:

 Author, I. I. (Year, Month Date). Title of article. Name of Publication numbers , vol , page

Examples:

 Schorr, D. (1996, November 4-18). Close to a shakedown. New Leader , 79 , 4.

 Ulloth, J.K. (2002, November). The benefits of humor in nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 41 , 476-481.

 Goldrick, B.A., & Goetz, A.M. (2003). Keeping West Nile virus at bay. 44-46. Nursing2003, 33 (8),

Basic Entry:

Articles in a Reference Work

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Format:

Signed Article:  Author, I. I. (Year). Title of article. In of reference work (vol.#, page #). Place of Publication. Publisher Title

Example : Signed Article

 Nye, J.S., Jr. (2004). Nationalism. In World book encyclopedia (vol.14, p.266). Chicago: The World Book.

The

Example: Unsigned Article

Frequency distribution. (1996). In S. Gail (Ed.), Gale encyclopedia of psychology (p.155). Detroit: Gale Research.

Basic Entry:

Online

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Format:

Online Periodical  Author, I. I. (Date). Title of article. Name of Periodical, vol source , page numbers. Retrieved month day, year, from

Examples: Online Periodical

 Armstrong, F., III. (2005, November). Measuring volatility and the cost of retirement.(personal fianancial planning). The CPA Journal, 75 (11),10-11. Retrieved November 6, 2006, from Academic OneFile database:  Clore, G. L., & Centerbar, D. B. (2004, June 1). Analyzing anger: How to make people mad. Emotion, 4 (2), 15-18. Retrieved November 6, 2006, from PsycARTICLE database:

Online Documents

Format: Author, I.I. (Date). Title of work. Retrieved: Month, Date, Year. from source:

Example: Online Document

 Humphry, D. (2006, August 18). Why assisted suicide for the mentally troubled is so problematic. In Retrieved November 6, 2006, from http://www.assistedsuicide.org/ Assisted suicide .  A primer on drug addiction. (n. d.). An addiction science network resources . Retrieved November 7, 2006, from http://www.addictionscience.net/ASNprimer.htm

Basic Entry:

Lecture, Speech, Address or Reading

Format:

Author, I.I.( year, month, date), Title . Type of presentation at Location.

Example: Bush, G. W. (2006, February 2). State of the Union Address presented at Congress, Washington DC.

. Gates, Bill (2005, April 27). Future advances in technology .

Retrieved December 12, 2006, from Microsoft Leaders Forum Americas. Washington, D.C.

Source of Information

 Publication manual of the American Psychological Association Psychological Association (5th ed.). (2001). Washington, D.C.: American