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APA 7th Edition Referencing Guide

Single Author

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 ....

Two Authors

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)....

 

Three to Twenty Authors

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...

 

More Than Twenty Authors

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: 

19 authors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Text

(Smith et al., 2020)

Smith et al. (2020) suggest...

eBooks

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 Author

 

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:

Group author

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Edited Books

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)....

Book Chapter

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.

Book chapter

 

 

 

 

 

 

In-Text

Antonovsky (2002)..   

.... (Antonovsky, 2002).