Be sure to check with your professor when unsure of which citation style to use.
If you need help structuring your citations, check out the style manual or consider using citation managers, which are linked below.
Remember: you always have the most control over the accuracy of your citations when you do it by hand using the selected style manual. Check any automatically generated citations for correctness.
The current American Psychological Association (APA) style manual is the 7th edition (2020).
A copy of the APA style manual is available in the Reference area at the Research Help Desk on the first floor of the Guerrieri Academic Commons.
Format: Author's last name, first initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher name. DOI.
Example:
Tomlinson, B. (2010). Greening through IT: information technology for environmental sustainability. MIT Press.
Note: DOI may not always be applicable.
With a DOI
Format: Author's last name, first initial. (Year). Title of the article. Journal title, volume number (issue number), pages. DOI or URL
Example:
Mehl, S. (2021). Why Linguists Should Care about Digital Humanities (and Epidemiology). Journal of English Linguistics, 49(3), 331–337. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242211019072
Format: Author's last name, first initial. (Date of publication). Title of the article. Magazine Title, volume number(issue), page numbers. DOI or URL if applicable
Example:
Groff, L. (2022, July/August). Beach Bummer. Atlantic, 330(1), 79-81.
Format: Author's last name, first initial. (Date of publication). Title of the article. Newspaper Title, volume, page numbers. Discontinuous pages are separated by commas
Example:
Jewett, C. (2022, Aug 17). Over-the-counter sales of hearing aids to start soon FDA ruling lifts requirement for patients to get medical exam, prescription. The Baltimore Sun, pp. A.14.
Format: Author's last name, first initial. (Date of document or date of last revision, if known). Title of page. URL
Note: If there is no author listed, you can use the organization, as seen below.
Note: Add in "retrieved [date]" if you think the information is likely to change over time.
Example:
Salisbury University. (2022). SU's Mission and Values. Retrieved August 17, 2022 from https://www.salisbury.edu/discover-su/mission-values.aspx.
Format: Author last name comma first initial period open parenthesis year close parenthesis period title of book italicized period publisher name period doi
Example:
Tomlinson comma B period open parenthesis 2010 close parenthesis Italicized Greening through IT colon information technology for environmental sustainability period MIT press period
Format: Author's last name comma first initial period open parenthesis Year close parenthesis period Title of the article period Italicized journal title comma italicized volume number open parenthesis issue number close parenthesis comma pages period DOI or URL
Example:
Mehl comma S period open parenthesis 2021 close parenthesis period Why Linguists Should Care about Digital Humanities open parenthesis and Epidemiology close parenthesis. period italicized Journal of English Linguistics comma 49 end italicized open parenthesis 3 close parenthesis comma 331–337 period https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242211019072
Format: Author's last name comma first initial period open parenthesis Date of publication close parenthesis period Title of the article period italicized Magazine Title comma italicized volume number open parenthesis issue close parenthesis comma page numbers period DOI or URL if applicable
Example:
Groff comma L period open parenthesis 2022 comma July slash August close parenthesis period Beach Bummer period italicized Atlantic comma 330 open parenthesis 1 close parenthesis comma 79 dash 81 period
Format: Author's last name comma first initial period open parenthesis Date of publication close parenthesis period Title of the article period italicized Newspaper Title comma italicized volume comma page numbers period Discontinuous pages are separated by commas
Example:
Jewett comma C period open parenthesis 2022 comma Aug 17 close parenthesis period Over-the-counter sales of hearing aids to start soon FDA ruling lifts requirement for patients to get medical exam, prescription period The Baltimore Sun comma pp period A period 14 period
Format: Author's last name comma first initial period open parenthesis Date of document or date of last revision, if known close parenthesis period Title of page period URL
Note: If there is no author listed, you can use the organization, as seen below.
Note: Add in "retrieved [date]" if you think the information is likely to change over time.
Example:
Salisbury University period open parenthesis 2022 close parenthesis period SU's Mission and Values period Retrieved August 17 comma 2022 from https://www.salisbury.edu/discover-su/mission-values.aspx.