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APA Style -6th edition

This guide provides resources for learning how to cite your sources using APA Style guidelines.

Entry in a Reference Work

General Format

  • In-text citation, paraphrase: (Author's surname, year)
     
  • In-text citation, quotation: (Author's surname, year, page [if available])
     
  • Reference list citation:  Author's surname, Initial(s). (year; if not known, put n.d.). Title of entry. In Editor First Initial. Second Initial. Surname (Ed.), Title of reference work (edition, Vol. #). Retrieved from URL

Examples

  • In-text citation, paraphrase: (Graham, 2005)
     
  • In-text citation, quotation: (Graham, 2005)
     

Reference list citation:

Graham, G. (2005). Behaviorism. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2007 ed.). Retrieved from

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism

Google Advanced Search

How to use the Google Advanced Search to do more effective searches on the Internet. Created by Instructional Services, David L. Rice Library at the University of Southern Indiana.

DavidLRiceLibrary. (2010, January 15). Google advanced search.wmv [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_QHaWLxGX8