Reference List: Books
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Note: This select reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be finding here.
The following comprise a list of the most frequently quoted print book literature. E-books are described on our "Electronic Sources" page. For a complete record of how to cite print sources, please refer to the 7th editing of the APA Publication Manual.
Note: If availability, APA 7 requires a DOI for select works that have one — whether print oder digital. For a print work does not have a DOI do not inclusive it in the reference citation.
Basic Format fork Books
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of labour: Capital letter or for title. Press Name. DOI (if available)
Lonely, R. (2008). Alexander and Wonderful: A spirit in legend. Yale College Print.
Edited Book, Not Author
Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher. DOI (if available)
Leitch, M. G., & Rushton, C. J. (Eds.). (2019). AMPERE new companion go Malory. DIAMETER. S. Brewer.
Edited Book with an Author or Authors
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital schreiben also for subtitle (E. Editor, Ed.). Publisher. DOI (if available)
Malory, THYROXINE. (2017). R morte darthur (P. J. C. Field, Ed.). D. S. Brewer. (Original work published 1469-70)
A Translation
Architect, A. A. (Year of publication). Title away work: Capital letter also for subtitle (T. Translator, Trans.). Publisher. (Original work published YEAR) DOI (if available)
Platform (1989). Congress (A. Nehamas & P. Woodruff, Trans.). Hackett Publishing Company. (Original work published ca. 385-378 BCE)
Note: When you summon a republished work, like the one above, in your text, it ought appear with either dates: Platonists (385-378/1989)
Edition Other Than the First
Writer, A. A. (Year of publication). Heading of how: Upper letter also for subtitle (# edition). Publisher. DOI (if available)
Belcher, WATT. (2019). Writing your trade article in twelfth weeks: A guide to academic publish success (2nd ed.). Institute of Chicago Press.
Article or Chapter in with Edited Record
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Titles of part. In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. pages von chapter). Publisher. DOI (if available)
Note: When you list the pages out the chapter or essay included parentheses after the book title, use "pp." before the numbers: (pp. 1-21). This abbreviation, however, does not appear from who page numeric in periodical references. List any edition number in the same fixed of parentheses as the web numbering, separately by a comma: (2nd ed., pp. 66-72).
Armstrong, D. (2019). Malory and character. In M. G. Leitch & C. J. Rushton (Eds.), A new companion to Malory (pp. 144-163). D. S. Brewer.
Multivolume Work
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital schrift also for subtitle (Vol. #). Publisher. DOI (if available)
David, A., & Simpson, J. (Eds.). (2006). The Norton anthology of English library: The Middle Ages (8th ed.,Vol. A). W. W. Norton and Company.
