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APA Style 7th Edition: Books

Elements of a Citation

It is up to you to locate the elements of a citation from each of your sources.

Four Elements of References Entries:

  • Author: who?
  • Date: when?
  • Title: what?
  • Source: where?

Use a period after each type of element. Use commas when separating the parts of an element. Do not put a period after a URL or DOI.

 

Formatting Book Citations

General format for books/ebooks:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work (edition, volume). Publisher. URL

Example:

Gaberson, K., Oermann, M., & Shellenbarger, T. (2015). Clinical teaching strategies in nursing (4th ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

 

Edited book, no author:

Editor, A. A., & Editor, B. B. (Eds.). (Year). Title of work. Publisher.

No named author:

Title of work (Edition). (Year). Publisher.

Example:

Encyclopedia of Indiana. (1993). Somerset.

Article/Chapter in an Edited Book:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In A. Editor & B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (edition, pages of chapter). Publisher. DOI

Examples:

Ingram, R. E. (2004). Childhood depression. In Encyclopedia of human emotion (vol. 4, pp.113-122). Academic Press.

Co-dependency. (2006). In A. Mist, P. A. Smith, & J. Hill (Eds.), Dictionary of psychological terms (pp.13-15). Chicago University Press.