Lesson 3: APA REFERENCING GUIDE

Question 1

How to cite a journal article:

Answer 1

Author, A.A., & Author, B.B. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Periodical, volume(issue), #-#. http://doi.org/xxxx

Question 2

How to cite a book:

Answer 2

Author, A.A., & Author, B. B. (Copyright Year). Title of the of the book: Capitalize Proper Nouns(7th ed.). Publisher. DOI or URL.

Question 3

How to cite a chapter in an edited book:

Answer 3

Author, A.A., & Author, B. B. (Copyright Year). Title of the of the book chapter. In A. A. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Title of the book (2nd ed., pp. #-#). Publisher. DOI or URL.

Question 4

If one author

Answer 4

In-text: Pilger, 2006) or Pilger (2006) stated that…

Question 5

If two authors

Answer 5

(Shaw & Eichbaum, 2008) or Shaw and Eichbaum (2008)…

List both authors

Question 6

If 3 or more authors, up to 20 authors

Answer 6

In-text: List the first author followed by et al.
e.g (Watson et al., 2019)

Reference list: List all authors up to including 20. The last author’s surname is preceded by an ampersand (&).
e.g. Watson S., Gunasekeran, G., Longdin, L., & Brown, L. (2003)

Question 7

if 21 more authors

Answer 7

In text: List the first author followed by et al.

Reference list: List the first 19 authors, then insert three dots (ellipsis …) and add the last author’s name.
e.g. Loannidis, N.M., Rothstein, J.H., Pejaver, V., Middha, S., … Weiver, S. (2016)

Question 8

Group (corporate) author with abbreviation

Answer 8

First citation:
(New Zeland Health Information Service (NZHIS, 2003).
Subsequent: (NZHS, 2003)

Reference list:
Do not include abbreviation for a group author in a refernce list entry.

Question 9

Author in secondary citations

Answer 9

In text: Include the original work and the date, and the citation for the source where you found the information
(Seidenberg & McClelland, 1990, as cited in Coltheart et al., 1993) or Seidenberg and McClelland (1990, as cited in Coltheart et al., 11993)

Reference list:
Enter the referencelist for the source you have read (secondary sourcee)
Colheart, M., Curtis,. B., & Haller M. (1993).

Question 10

Author of a chapter in an edited book

Answer 10

In text: (Easton, 2008) or according to Easton (2008)

Reference list: Include a DOI after the publisher if available.
Easton, B. (2008). Does poverty affect health? In K. Dew & A. Matheson (Eds), Understanding health inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand (pp. 97-106). Otago University Press

Question 11

unknown author

Answer 11

use the source title.
(Source Title, 2020)

Question 12

unknown date

Answer 12

write “n.d.” for “no date”
(Harris, n.d.)

Question 13

unknown page number

Answer 13

use an alternative locator or omit the page number
(Harris, 2020, Slide 15) or (Harris, 2020)

Question 14

If there is more than one publisher, how would you cite ae book/ebook without DOI?

Answer 14

for more than one publisher, list all publishers in the order that they appear, spearated by a semicolon. Do not include the database name or URL.

Question 15

how to cite using source titles:

Answer 15

• italicize the title if it’s italicized in the reference entry
• otherwise, enclose it in double quotation marks
• apply title case, capitalization, and shorten long titles. The first word of the title should always be included.

(“U.S. Flood Risk,” 2015) (Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2017)

Question 16

Avoiding ambigutiy in APA in-text citations

Multiple works by the same author in the same year

Answer 16

Add a lowercase letter after the year

(Cooper, 2018a)
(Cooper, 2018b)

Question 17

Avoiding ambigutiy in APA in-text citations

Different authors with the same last name.

Answer 17

Include the authors’ initials.

(H. Taylor, 2019)
(B. J. Taylor, 2016)

Question 18

Avoiding ambigutiy in APA in-text citations

Multiple works with 3+ authors that shorten to the same form (ie., same first author(s) and date).

Answer 18

include as many names as needed to distinguish the citations.