APA 7th Edition Referencing Guide

Structure:

Last name first, followed by author initials. (date). Title (edition). Publisher

Example:

Myers, D. G. (2013). Psychology (10th ed.). Worth.

In Text:

.....(Myers, 2013)

Myers (2013) suggests ....

Structure:

List by their last names and initials. Separate author names with a comma. Use the ampersand instead of "and." (date). Title (edition). Publisher

Example:

Horn, T. S., & Smith, A. L. (2018). Advances in sport and exercise psychology (4th ed.). Human Kinetic

In Text:

Research by Horn and Smith (2018) reports...

.....(Horn & Smith, 2020)....

Structure:

List by last names and initials; commas separate author names, while the last author name is preceded by ampersand (&). (date). Title (edition). Publisher

Example:

Schacter, D. L., Gilbert, D. T., Wegner, D. M., & Hood, B. M. (2016). Psychology (2nd ed.). Palgrave.

In-text:

(Schacter et al., 2016)

Schacter et al. (2016) suggest...

Structure: 

List by last names and initials; commas separate author names. After the first 19 authors’ names, use an ellipsis (dot) in place of the remaining author names. Then, end with the final author's name (do not place an ampersand before it). There should be no more than twenty names in the citation in total. (date). Title (edition). Publisher

It is extremely unlikely you will come across a book with 20 or more authors - so this one is fabricated!  Note the hanging indent layout and double spacing. -  (easy to set in Word).

Example: 

In Text:

(Smith et al., 2020)

Smith et al. (2020) suggest...

Where the ebook and print book have the same content you do not need to note that you have used an ebook version, just reference and cite as for a print book.

If the content is different the structure is as follows:

Lastname, F.M. (Year). Title of book [eBook edition]. Publisher. URL.

Group authors also known as corporate authors can also publish documents.  Group authors are government agencies, or organisations such as the British Psychological Society.  You treat  the group author exactly the same as a human author.

Example:

In-Text:

Treat as a human author. If the organisation is well known by it's abbreviations as with the NHS you can include the abbreviation the first time in the brackets and from then on you can use the abbreviations.

First citation: (National Health Service [NHS], 2019)

Second citation: (NHS, 2019)

Structure:

Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher.

Example:

Marks, D. F. (Ed.).  (2002). The Health Psychology Reader. Sage Publications

In Text:

..(Marks, 2002)

Marks (2002)....

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. pages of chapter). Publisher.

In-Text:

Antonovsky (2002)..   

.... (Antonovsky, 2002).