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APA Style for References: Books and Periodicals
Source: American Psychological Association (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological
Association (5 th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Call Number: Ref BF76.7.P83 2001
Books:
Author(s) or Editor(s), if known (Date of publication). Title (additional information such as
No Author:
edition, translator, report number, volume number). Place of Publication: Publisher.
Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary (10 th ed.). (1999). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.
Single Author:
Perlmutter, P. (2000). Legacy of hate: A short history of ethnic, religious, and racial prejudice in America (Rev.
ed.). Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Schlosser, E. (2001). Fast food nation: The dark side of the all-American meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Multiple Authors:
Tasker, F. L. & Golombok, S. (1997). Growing up in a lesbian family: Effects on child development. New
York: Guilford Press.
Edited Collections, Compilations, Translations:
Adler, A. (1978). Co-operation between the sexes: Writings on women, love and marriage, sexuality,
and its disorders (H. L. Ansbacher & R. R. Ansbacher, Eds. & Trans.). Garden City, NY: Anchor
Books.
Blass, T. (Ed.). (2000). Obedience to authority: Current perspectives on the Milgram paradigm. Mahwah,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Bradley, J. P., Daniels, L. F., & Jones, T. C. (Comp.). (1969). The international dictionary of thoughts: An
encyclopedia of quotations from every age for every occasion. Chicago: J. G. Ferguson.
Chaucer, G. (1957). Works (F. N. Robinson, Ed., Rev. 2 nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Twain, M. (1967). Mark Twain’s satires & burlesques (F. R. Rogers, Ed.). Berkeley: University of California
Press.
Corporate Author:
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR (4 th
ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: Author.
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Committee on Child Psychiatry. (1999). In the long run – longitudinal
studies of psychopathology in children. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Multivolume Works:
Author(s), if known; otherwise, Editor(s), if known (Date of publication). Title (additional information such
as edition, volume numbers). Place of Publication: Publisher.
If only one volume was used:
Bowlby, J. (1980). Attachment and loss: Vol. 3. Loss --sadness and depression. New York: Basic Books.
Derbyshire, S.W.G. (1999). Pain. In D. Levinson, J. J. Ponzetti, Jr., & P. F. Jorgensen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of
human emotions (Vol. 2, pp. 449-500). New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
If two or more volumes were used in the research:
Borgatta, E. F. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of sociology (2 nd ed., Vols. 1-5). New York: Macmillan Reference
USA.
Eblen, R. A. & Eblen, W. R. (Eds.). (2001). The environment encyclopedia (Vols. 1-11). New York: Marshall
Cavendish.
Sifakis, C. (2001). The encyclopedia of American crime (2 nd ed., Vols. 1-2). New York: Facts on File.
Walker, B. (1968). The Hindu world: An encyclopedic survey of Hinduism (Vols. 1-2). New York: Praeger.
Chapters or Articles from a Book:
Article or Chapter Author (Date of publication). Article or Chapter title. In Editor(s), Title of book (page
numbers). Place of Publication: Publisher.
Unsigned article:
Swastika. (1997). In R. Cavendish, et al. (Eds.), Man, myth and magic: The illustrated encyclopedia of
mythology, religion, and the unknown (Vol. 18, p. 2517). New York: Marshall Cavendish.
One or more authors:
Chesney-Lind, M. (1995). Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice: toward a feminist theory of young women’s
crime. In B. R. Price & N. J. Sokoloff (Eds. & Comp.), The criminal justice system and women:
Offenders, victims, and workers (2 nd ed., pp. 71-88). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Fulda, J. S. (1999). Social and biological sex differences can cause the perception of sexual harassment. In
Gerdes, L. I. (Ed.), Sexual harassment (pp. 87-89). San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. (Reprinted
from Lincoln Review, 11(3), pp. 13-17, 1993)
Mahowald, M. B., Silver, J., & Ratcheson, R. A. (1995). The ethical options in transplanting fetal tissue. In J. H.
Howell & W. F. Sale (Eds.), Life choices: A Hastings Center introduction to bioethics (pp. 480-494).
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Thompson, R. L. & Larson, R. (2000). Social context and the subjective experience of different types of rock
music. In G. Adams (Ed.), Adolescent development: The essential readings (pp. 243-255). Malden,
MA: Blackwell.
Periodical Articles:
Author or institution. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume(number, if needed),
page numbers.
Article from weekly or monthly magazine:
Barbor, C. (2001, May/June). The science of meditation. Psychology Today, 54-59.
Harder, B. (2002, February 2). Germs that do a body good. Science News, 72-74.
Keizer, G. (2001, September). Why we hate our teachers. Harper’s Magazine, 37-44.
School readiness and assessment. (2002, January 10). Education Week, 66-67.
Journal article, journal paginated by issue:
Badger, J. M. (2001). Burns: The psychological aspect. American Journal of Nursing, 101(11), 38-42.
Glick, I. D. & Horsfall, J. L. (2001). Psychiatric conditions in sports: Diagnosis, treatment and quality of life. The
Physician and Sportsmedicine, 29(8), 44-50, 55.
Journal article, continuous pagination:
Kochanska, G., Coy, K. C., & Murray, K. T. (2001). The development of self-regulation in the first four years of
life. Child Development, 72, 1091-1111.
Vermunt, R., van Knippenberg, D., van Knippenberg, B., & Blaauw, E. (2001). Self-esteem and outcome
fairness: Differential importance of procedural and outcome considerations. Journal of Applied
Psychology, 86, 621-628.
Newspaper article:
Capacity for exercise can help determine life span, study finds. (2002, March 14). The New York Times
[National edition], p. A25.
Ferrell, D. (2001, December 13). Where great minds meet in style. Los Angeles Times, p. B2.
Monaghan, P. (2002, February 22). The unsettled question of brain death. The Chronicle of Higher Education,
pp. A14-A16.
Government report:
National Institutes of Health. (1997). Diabetes in Hispanic Americans (NIH Publication No. 97-3266).
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Weedn, V. W. & Hicks, J. W. (1998). The unrealized potential of DNA testing (NIJ Publication No. 170596).
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Book or movie review:
Appelo, T. (2001, November 19). The thin blue line [Review of the motion picture Training days]. The Nation, 36-37.
Baumeister, R. F. (1993). Exposing the self-knowledge myth [Review of the book The self-knower: A hero under
control]. Contemporary Psychology, 38, 466-467.
Friedman, P. (2002, May 2). A wild setting where grief and anger lead to love [Review of the book Billie’s kiss]. Los
Angeles Times, E3.
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