should also submit written permission along with your work. Begin the citation with
“Note.”
Note. From “Title of the article,” by W. Jones and R. Smith, 2007, Journal Title, 21, p.
122. Copyright 2007 by Copyright Holder. Reprinted with permission.
Contributors:Elizabeth Angeli, Jodi Wagner, Elena Lawrick, Kristen Moore, Michael
Anderson, Lars Soderlund, Allen Brizee, Russell Keck.
Summary:
APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly used to cite sources within
the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of
the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text
citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult
the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, second
printing.
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information
necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper.
Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry
in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this
page "References" centered at the top of the page (do NOT bold, underline, or use
quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your
essay.
Basic Rules
All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented
one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
Authors' names are inverted (last name first); give the last name and initials for all
authors of a particular work for up to and including seven authors. If the work has
more than seven authors, list the first six authors and then use ellipses after the sixth
author's name. After the ellipses, list the last author's name of the work.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of
each work.
If you have more than one article by the same author, single-author references or
multiple-author references with the exact same authors in the exact same order are
listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.
Capitalize all major words in journal titles.
When referring to books, chapters, articles, or Web pages, capitalize only the first
letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in
the title, and proper nouns. Do not capitalize the first letter of the second word in a
hyphenated compound word.
Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.
Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as
journal articles or essays in edited collections.
Please note: While the APA manual provides many examples of how to cite
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