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Summary:
APA(AmericanPsychologicalAssociation)styleismostcommonlyusedtocitesourceswithinthesocialsciences.Thisresource,
revisedaccordingtothe6thedition,secondprintingoftheAPAmanual,offersexamplesforthegeneralformatofAPAresearch
papers,intextcitations,endnotes/footnotes,andthereferencepage.Formoreinformation,pleaseconsultthePublicationManualof
theAmericanPsychologicalAssociation,(6thed.,2ndprinting).
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BasicForm
APAstyledictatesthatauthorsarenamedlastnamefollowedbyinitialspublicationyeargoesbetweenparentheses,followedbya
period.Thetitleofthearticleisinsentencecase,meaningonlythefirstwordandpropernounsinthetitlearecapitalized.The
periodicaltitleisrunintitlecase,andisfollowedbythevolumenumberwhich,withthetitle,isalsoitalicized.IfaDOIhasbeen
assignedtothearticlethatyouareusing,youshouldincludethisafterthepagenumbersforthearticle.IfnoDOIhasbeenassigned
andyouareaccessingtheperiodicalonline,usetheURLofthewebsitefromwhichyouareretrievingtheperiodical.
Author,A.A.,Author,B.B.,&Author,C.C.(Year).Titleofarticle.Titleof
Periodical,volumenumber(issuenumber),pages.
http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy
ArticleinJournalPaginatedbyVolume
Journalsthatarepaginatedbyvolumebeginwithpageoneinissueone,andcontinuenumberingissuetwowhereissueoneended,
etc.
Harlow,H.F.(1983).Fundamentalsforpreparingpsychologyjournalarticles.
JournalofComparativeandPhysiologicalPsychology,55,893896.
ArticleinJournalPaginatedbyIssue
Journalspaginatedbyissuebeginwithpageoneeveryissuetherefore,theissuenumbergetsindicatedinparenthesesafterthe
volume.Theparenthesesandissuenumberarenotitalicizedorunderlined.
Scruton,R.(1996).Theeclipseoflistening.TheNewCriterion,15(3),513.
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8/20/2016 PurdueOWL:APAFormattingandStyleGuide
ArticleinaMagazine
Henry,W.A.,III.(1990,April9).Makingthegradeintoday'sschools.Time,
135,2831.
ArticleinaNewspaper
Unlikeotherperiodicals,p.orpp.precedespagenumbersforanewspaperreferenceinAPAstyle.Singlepagestakep.,e.g.,p.B2
multiplepagestakepp.,e.g.,pp.B2,B4orpp.C1,C3C4.
Schultz,S.(2005,December28).Callsmadetostrengthenstateenergypolicies.
TheCountryToday,pp.1A,2A.
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Useaspaceasnormalbeforethebrackets,butdonotincludeaspacefollowingthebracket.
LettertotheEditor
Moller,G.(2002,August).Ripplesversusrumbles[Lettertotheeditor].
ScientificAmerican,287(2),12.
Review
Baumeister,R.F.(1993).Exposingtheselfknowledgemyth[Reviewofthebook
Theselfknower:Aheroundercontrol,byR.A.Wicklund&M.Eckert].
ContemporaryPsychology,38,466467.
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