APA Style - APA - Referencing Guide - Help & Support

The APA referencing style is an "author-date" style, so the citation in the text consists of the author(s) and the year of publication given ... SkiptoMainContent LibraryHelpandSupportReferencingGuidesAPA-ReferencingGuideAPAStyle SearchthisGuide Search APA-ReferencingGuide APAStyle APAStyleInTextCitationToggleDropdownCitingintheTextCitationMethodsCitationExamplesCitingElectronicDocumentsCitingImagesCitingPersonalCommunicationsCitingSecondarySourcesReferenceListEntriesToggleDropdownAssignmentsA-VMaterialsBookChaptersBooksConferencePapersDatasetsE-booksE-journalsElectronicDocumentsImagesInternetDocumentsJournalArticlesLegalMaterialsNewspaperArticlesPodcastsReaders/StudyGuidesSocialMediaThesesAllExamplesSampleReferenceListAbbreviations4EasyStepsReferencingTermsMoreInformation... AboutAPAStyle Therearetwopartstoreferencing:thecitationswithinthetextofyourpaperandthereferencelistattheendofyourpaper. TheAPAreferencingstyleisan"author-date"style,sothecitationinthetext consistsoftheauthor(s)andtheyearofpublicationgivenwhollyorpartlyinroundbrackets. Use onlythesurnameoftheauthor(s)followedbyacommaandtheyearofpublication.Includepage,chapterorsectionnumbersifyouneedtobespecific,forexampleifyouarequoting,paraphrasingorsummarising:     Nodistinctionismadebetweenbooks,journalarticles, internetdocumentsorotherformatsexceptforelectronicdocumentsthatdonotprovidepagenumbers.Inthiscaseusetheparagraphnumber,ifavailable,withtheabbreviationpara. Thefulldetailsofthesourcearegiveninareferencelistattheendofthedocument:   Referencelistentriescontainalltheinformationthatisrequiredtofollowupyoursource.ReferencelistsinAPAarearrangedalphabeticallybyauthor. SeeReferenceListEntriesorAllExamplesfordetailsonhowtoconstructreferencesforspecificresourcessuchasbooks,journalsandwebpages. ImportantInformation CreatedFebruary2010;modifiedJanuary2020 Pleaseremembertocheckwithyourunitco-ordinatorortutorbeforesubmittingyourassignments,astheirstylepreferencemayvaryfromtheguidelinespresentedhere. WhenusingEndNote referencingsoftware,pleaseusethefollowingoutputstyle-APA7th.DependingonwhichversionofEndNoteyouareusing,youmayneedtodownloadthisoutputstyletemplate.ForinformationaboutEndNoteanddownloadingoutputstyletemplates,pleaseseetheEndNoteGuide. Acknowledgement Thisreferencingguidefollowstheprinciplesandexamplesgiveninthe7theditionofthePublicationManualoftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation(2020). Next:InTextCitation>>