APA STYLE
Referencing Guide
At a glance:
•The APA style is an author/date style used for citing and referencing information in assignments and publications.
•This guide is based on the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (2010) 6th edition, APA Style Guide to Electronic Sources and the APA Style Blog. Please check with your lecturer regarding any questions you have about the style and any preferred variations of the style.
•For further information on APA style consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association available in the Main Library at BF76.7 P83 2010, APA Style Guide to Electronic Sources, or the APA Style Blog http://blog.apastyle.org
In-text citations
Where you are paraphrasing someone else’s work, you are encouraged to acknowledge this with the authors’ names, year of publication and page or paragraph number if referring to a specific section.
Reference list
An alphabetical list at the end of the text giving full details for each corresponding intext reference.
Ross and Duffy (2002) data that refutes their arguments against the 2003) are based on errors
DID has demonstrated (Sar, Unal & Ozturk,
much more research is required phenomenology, psychobiology, available evidence supports its DSM.
If the authors' names form part of your sentence you do not need to include them in the brackets.
Include the page numbers if you directly quote another work.
Ross, C., & Duffy, C. (2002). Prevalence, reliability and validity of dissociative disorders in an inpatient setting. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 3, 7-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J229v03 n01_02
Sar, V., Unal, S. N., & Ozturk, E. (2007). Frontal and occipital perfusion chances in dissociative identity disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 156(3), 217-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. psychres.2006.12.017
Examples of different items formatted for a reference list
Books and ebooks
•Only the author's surname and first name initials are included, regardless of the presentation of the author's name in the book.
•Only the first letter of the first word of the title (and subtitle, if given) and proper nouns (the names of people, places or organisations, etc.) are capitalised.
•If the ebook has a digital object identifier (DOI), include this in your reference. If there is no DOI include the URL.
•If the ebook was read or acquired through an e-reader device, place the e-reader version in square brackets following the title, not italicised (e.g. [Kindle version]).
•For more information on referencing ebooks, go to http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/06/how- do-you-cite-an-e-book.html