APA Reference Sheet

The following information should act as a guideline for properly citing sources intext and on the Reference page of your work.
Reference Page
The first step is to determine what type of source it is. For example is it a book,
magazine article, web page, newspaper article on the internet etc.
An Article in a Periodical (A periodical could be a newspaper, journal article, or
magazine)
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
Volume number, pages.
A Non-Periodical (A non-periodical includes a book or report,)
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location:
Publisher.
Part of a Non-Periodical (This includes a book chapter or an article in a collection)
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In A. Editor & B.
Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pages of chapter). Location: Publisher.
Article in an Internet Periodical
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal,
volume number (issue number if available). Retrieved month day, year, from
http://web address.
Non-periodical Internet Document (Including a Web page)
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Retrieved month date,
year, from http://Web address.
How to List Multiple Authors:
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C., Author, D., & Author, E.

If there are more than 6 authors

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C., Author, D., Author, E., Author, F. et al.
In-text Citations
Citations are placed within sentences and paragraphs for two main reasons.
1. So the reader can easily find the source on the References page and easily
locate the original source.
2. The reader can easily identify what information is being quoted or paraphrased
and whose information is being cited.
How to use in-text citations
Citations in Text of Electronic Material
As a rule of thumb you need to include the authors last name and the year. If you cite a
specific part of a source (quote, table) , you must include the page number and chapter
number (if necessary). For electronic sources paragraph numbers can be used in place
of page numbers.
One Author
(Author last name, Year, chap. #)
(Author last name, Year, 5)
Two Authors
(Author last name & Author last name, Year, p. #)
Personal Communication
The nature of this course may require personal communication to be cited in your
reports or papers. APA does not put non-published material on your References page.
Therefore, you only cite personal communication in-text. It should appear as follows:
(A. Author, personal communication, Month #, Year)
For more information please refer to:
American Psychological Association (2001). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.