APA 5th Edition

The Reference List

In alphabetical order, by first authors last name Hanging indent All book titles and journal titles in Italics Includes only published sources

Periodicals
Authors last name, First initial, followed by one period. If there is more than one author, the period is followed by a comma, the then Last name of the second author. And & goes before the final authors last name Authors are listed in the order they appear in publication.

The date, in parentheses, follows the last authors name, followed by a period. True for all citations, no matter what media form, that have authors. If there is no author, the title of the work goes in the author position or the author is stated as Anonymous.

Examples
Herman, L.M. (1993). Herman, L.M., & Holder, M.D. (1993, Spring). Holder, M.D., Law, S.Q., & Herman, L.M. (1993). A quicksilver mind. (2003). Anonymous. (2003, March).

Periodicals: Article name

The article name follows the date. Only the first word of the article and the first word of the subtitle are capitalized. The title is followed by a period. There are no quotation marks, underlining, or italics (although intext citations of articles do include quotation marks).

Examples

Herman, L.M., Kuczaj, S.A., & Holder, M.D. (1993). Responses to anomalous gestural sequences by a language-trained dolphin: Evidence for processing of semantic relations and syntactic information.

Periodical: Publication titles, etc.

The title of the publication retains the capitalization of the publication itself. In italics

Followed by a comma Followed by the volume number in italics Followed by the issue number in parentheses, non italics, followed by a comma If there no issue number available, just a comma. Followed by the inclusive page numbers

Example
Herman, L.M., Kuczaj, S.A., & Holder, M.D. (1993). Responses to anomalous gestural sequences by a language-trained dolphin: Evidence for processing of semantic relations and syntactic information. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 122 (3), 184-194.
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Periodicals: Weeklies, Newspapers, or Bi-Monthly Glossies

The complete date is necessary if no volume number is used.

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Example
Samuelson, R.J. (2003, September 22). The creaky job machine. Newsweek, 46. What to watch: Quest earnings. (2003, September 3). Newark Star-Ledger, 48. Coin, J. (2002, November 2). Saving the S.E.C. from itself [Letter to the editor]. New York Times, A16.
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Periodical articles retrieved from databases

At the end of the citation, the following designation appears: Retrieved on (date of access) from (name of database). OR The notation [Electronic version.] is inserted between the title and periodical name.

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Example
Coin, J. (2002, November 2). Saving the S.E.C. from itself [Letter to the editor]. New York Times, A16. Retrieved September 23, 2005 from Infotrac full-text newspaper database. OR Coin, J. (2002, November 2). Saving the S.E.C. from itself [Letter to the editor]. [Electronic version.] New York Times, A16.

The retrieved from might also read Retrieved May 3, 2005 from www.awebsite/specificpage/htm.
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Books

Follow the same format, except that after the title of the book, the publication data is used.

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Example

Buhle, P., & Wagner, D. (2003). Hide in plain sight: The Hollywood blacklistees in film and television, 1950-2002. New York: Palgrave Macmillian.

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Books: Part of a Book When Chapters are by Individual Authors

The author of the part of the book goes first The title of the chapter or essay Then the editors name in normal order Title of the book (italics) Page numbers of selection (in parentheses) The rest of the publication data

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Example
Bjork,R.A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H.L. Roediger (Ed.), Varieties of memory and consciousness (pp.309-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Internet Website

Author, if there is one If no author, title goes in author position. Year/date of material or of webpage copyright or n.d. in parentheses if no date is given.

Title, Website, and whatever other data exists

Retrieved on (date of access) from specific page of website: http://www.url_of_source.htm. If you use multiple pages from the same web site, you may have multiple reference entries.
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Examples
1955. (2003). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved on September 23, 2003, from: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955. The history of Halloween. (19962003). History channel website. Retrieved on September 23, 2003, from: http://www.historychannel.com/ exhibits/halloween/hallowmas.html.
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