APA Style

The final authority for APA is the American Psychological Association, specifically the Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association (5th ed.). The final authority for the bibliographic form used in your paper is your professor.

Book:

Coltrane, S. (1998). Gender and families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Journal article:

Egan, S. E., & Perry, D. G. (2001). Gender identity: A multidimensional analysis with implications for psychosocial adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 37(4), 451-464.

Fulltext journal article from a database:

Day, K. (2001). Constructing masculinity and women's fear in public space in Irvine, California. Gender Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 8(2), 109-128. Retrieved October 9, 2001, from Academic Search Elite database.

Video:

Lazarus, M., & Wunderlich, R. (Producers). (2000). Beyond killing us softly: The strength to resist : The impact of media images on women and girls. [Videotape]. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Documentary Films.

Essay in a multivolume work (each volume with a unique title):

Bloom, L. Z. (1985). Maya Angelou. In T. M. Davis & T. Harris (Eds.), Dictionary of literary biography: Vol 38. Afro-American writers after 1955: Dramatists and prose writers. Detroit: Gale.

Excerpt from a source reprinted in multivolume work:

Neubauer, C. E. (1993). Maya Angelou: Self and a song of freedom in the southern tradition. In J. P. Draper (Ed.), Contemporary literary criticism (Vol. 77, pp. 130-131). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from Southern women writers: The new generation, pp. 114-42, by T. B. Inge, Ed., 1990, Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P).

Web site:

Sime, W. E. (1997). Stress management: A review of principles. Retrieved October 16, 2001, from University of Nebraska Lincoln web site: http://www.unl.edu/stress/mgmt/

 

More Resources

There are a number of WWW links to help with APA documentation style. Try these:

Note also the following books the Reference Room of our library. All of these plus more are located on the counter top at the north end of the Reference Room and labeled "Style Guides."

  • Keene, M. L and Adams, K. H. (2006). Easy Access. New York: McGraw Hill. (Ref PE1408 .K425 2006)

  • Maimon, E P., Peritz, J. H., and Yancey, K. B. A Writer's Resource: A Handbook for Writing and Research ( 2nd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill, 2007. (Ref PE 1408 .M3366 2007)

  • Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association (5th ed.). (2001). Washington, DC: APA. (Ref BF 76.7 .P83 2001)

Updated 06-Nov-2007 SWH