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APA Guide

7th Edition

Use the examples below to format a reference from a book.

General Format

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book: Use capital letter for the first word for subtitle. Location: Publisher.

Categories		Solutions
A print book with one author	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book: Use capital letter for the first word for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
A print book with one author	Example	Johnson, P. (2003). Art: A new history. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
A print book with more than one author	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial., & Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book: Use capital letter for the first word for subtitle. Location: Publisher.
A print book with more than one author	Example	Kamruzzaman, J., Begg, R., & Sarker, R. A. (2006). Artificial neural networks in finance and manufacturing. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Pub.
Electronic Book	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book. Retrieved from URL
Electronic Book	Example	Lenarz, T., & Wriggers, P. (2014). Biomedical Technology. Retrieved from http://www.eblib.com
Volume book	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book (Volume Number). Location: Publisher.
Volume book	Example	De Certeau, M., Giard, L., Mayol, P., & Tomasik, T. J. (1998). The practice of everyday life: Living and cooking (Vol. 2). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Book chapter from an edited book	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of chapter. In Author's First Initial. Middle initial. Last Name (Eds.), Title of book (page number/s). Location: Publisher.
Book chapter from an edited book	Example	Elkana, Y. (1975). The problem of knowledge. In Weiss, P. A. (Eds.), Knowledge in search of understanding: The Frensham papers (pp.91-104). NY: Futura Publishing Company, Inc..
Dictionary entry or encyclopedia article	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of entry. In Editor First Initial. Second Initial. Last Name (Ed.), Title of reference work (Vol. #, pp. #). Location: Publisher.
Dictionary entry or encyclopedia article	Example	Musket. (2003). In The new encyclopedia britannica (Vol. 8, pp. 449). Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc..
Entire edited book	Format	Editor's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial (Ed.). (Publication Year). Title of book. Location: Publication.
Entire edited book	Example	Oates, J. C. (Ed.). (1992). The Oxford book of American short stories. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Translated book	Format	Author Last Name, First Initial. (Publication Year). Title of the book. (First Initial, Last name of the translator, Trans.). Location: Publisher. (Provide original work published year if it is available in the parentheses)
Translated book	Example	Zarraluki, P. (2014). The history of silence. (N. Caistor & L.García, Trans.). Madrid, Spain: Hispabooks.

See page 202-205 of the manual for more information.