APA Referencing Style for Works Cited List
APA Style
Your reference list entries should follow the format of:
·
Author’s surname followed by initials
·
The year of publication
·
The title of the text in, with short texts in
standard format and longer texts in italics
·
The place of publication
·
The publisher’s name
The APA style is very similar to the Harvard style, yet the placement of
some punctuation needs to change. For example, a simple book entry for John Milton’s Paradise
Lost will look as follows:
Milton, J. (2003). Paradise
Lost. London: Penguin Classics.
Notice the placement of commas and periods. Commas separate
the author’s initials from their surname. Periods separate the different
components of the reference, and a colon separates the place of publication
from the publisher’s name.
For books with two or
more authors, give the first (primary) author’s surname, a comma and the
initial followed by a period. Follow this with the second author’s surname and
initial, in this format:
Rollins, J. P., Thompson, P. W.,
& Johnson, P. (2007).
For APA style, there is a limit of seven authors listed per reference,
so if you have more than seven, place an ellipse (…) after the sixth author’s
name and then simply give the final author’s details.
If you are using an article
within a book, or any shorter work which appears as part of a larger collection
like a poem in an anthology or a scholarly paper within a journal, then you
will include both the name of the short work in standard formatting as well as
the name of the long work in italics. You’ll also have to include the pages
that the short work appears on, if these are available:
Titus, J. (2006). The Raging
Sea. Poems About Water (pp. 25-33).
New York: Purple Publishers.
Notice the pages that the poem appears on are given after
the title of the larger work.
For scholarly journals, you can also include the edition
details, such as the volume and the number of the journal. The volume is placed
next to the journal’s title after a comma, and the number is placed in brackets
directly next to the volume number. These are then followed by the pages on
which the article appears.
Azua, M. (2003). Phenomenology
in the Workplace. Journal of Workplace Philosophy, 22(5), 38-77.
For electronic sources such as websites, you can keep the
same format and simply leave out any information which is not available, such
as author’s name or date of publication.
You should include the URL of any sites that you visit in
place of page numbers, and the date that the document was published.
Rice, H. (2017). 10 Things You
Didn’t Know You Were Doing Wrong. FuzzBeed. Retrieved from http://www.fuzzbeed.com/10_things.html.
In this example, the date of publication is included. For
online scholarly articles, you can use the usual format given for physical
journal articles, and simply include the URL and the date you accessed it with
the ‘Retrieved from’ format.