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ReferenceList:Books
Summary:

APA(AmericanPsychologicalAssociation)styleismostcommonlyusedtocitesourceswithinthesocialsciences.Thisresource,

revisedaccordingtothe6thedition,secondprintingoftheAPAmanual,offersexamplesforthegeneralformatofAPAresearch
papers,intextcitations,endnotes/footnotes,andthereferencepage.Formoreinformation,pleaseconsultthePublicationManualof

theAmericanPsychologicalAssociation,(6thed.,2ndprinting).

Contributors:JoshuaM.Paiz,ElizabethAngeli,JodiWagner,ElenaLawrick,KristenMoore,MichaelAnderson,LarsSoderlund,
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BasicFormatforBooks

Author,A.A.(Yearofpublication).Titleofwork:Capitalletteralsofor
subtitle.Location:Publisher.

Note:For"Location,"youshouldalwayslistthecityandthestateusingthetwoletterpostalabbreviationwithoutperiods(New
York,NY).

Calfee,R.C.,&Valencia,R.R.(1991).APAguidetopreparingmanuscriptsfor
journalpublication.Washington,DC:AmericanPsychologicalAssociation.

EditedBook,NoAuthor

Duncan,G.J.,&BrooksGunn,J.(Eds.).(1997).Consequencesofgrowinguppoor.
NewYork,NY:RussellSageFoundation.

EditedBookwithanAuthororAuthors

Plath,S.(2000).Theunabridgedjournals.K.V.Kukil(Ed.).NewYork,NY:
Anchor.

ATranslation

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Laplace,P.S.(1951).Aphilosophicalessayonprobabilities.(F.W.Truscott&
F.L.Emory,Trans.).NewYork,NY:Dover.(Originalworkpublished1814)

Note:Whenyoucitearepublishedwork,liketheoneabove,inyourtext,itshouldappearwithbothdates:Laplace(1814/1951).

EditionOtherThantheFirst

Helfer,M.E.,Kempe,R.S.,&Krugman,R.D.(1997).Thebatteredchild(5th
ed.).Chicago,IL:UniversityofChicagoPress.

ArticleorChapterinanEditedBook

Author,A.A.,&Author,B.B.(Yearofpublication).Titleofchapter.InA.A.
Editor&B.B.Editor(Eds.),Titleofbook(pagesofchapter).Location:
Publisher.

Note:Whenyoulistthepagesofthechapteroressayinparenthesesafterthebooktitle,use"pp."beforethenumbers:(pp.121).
Thisabbreviation,however,doesnotappearbeforethepagenumbersinperiodicalreferences,exceptfornewspapers.

O'Neil,J.M.,&Egan,J.(1992).Men'sandwomen'sgenderrolejourneys:A
metaphorforhealing,transition,andtransformation.InB.R.Wainrib(Ed.),
Genderissuesacrossthelifecycle(pp.107123).NewYork,NY:Springer.

MultivolumeWork

Wiener,P.(Ed.).(1973).Dictionaryofthehistoryofideas(Vols.14).New
York,NY:Scribner's.

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