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APA (American Psychological Association) is an author-date style developed mainly for use in psychology but has been adopted by other disciplines.

Author-date refers to how the source is cited in-text. This is usually an author and the date of publication in parenthesis, for example: (A. Writer, 2000).

At the end of the main body of work, an alphabetical list cites all of the references used. This is known as the Bibliography or Reference List.

Book

[Author/Editor.] [(year of publication).] [Title.] [Edition (if it is not the first edition).] [Place of publication: Publisher]

Northedge, A. (2005). The Good Study Guide. (2nd ed.). Milton Keynes: Open University.

Journal Article (print)

[Author.] [(year of publication).] [Title of article.] [Title of journal,] [volume number (issue),] [pages.]

Mellers, B. A. (2000). Choice and the relative pleasure of consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 126(3), 910-924.

Journal Article (electronic)

[Author.] [(year of publication).] [Title of article.] [Title of journal,] [Volume number (issue number),] [pages.] [Retrieved date of access from Name of collection URL of collection.]

Gruter, C. and Ratniels, F.L.W. (2011). Honeybee foragers increase the use of waggle dance information when private information becomes unrewarding. Animal behaviour, 81(5), 949-954. Retrieved 19th July 2011 from JSTOR www.jstor.org.

Published Conference Paper in Conference Proceedings

[Author.] [(Year,).] [Title of paper.] [In Editor (first initial, last name)] [(Ed.)] [Title of conference proceedings] [(page numbers).] [Place of publication: Publisher.]

Peters, L. (2006). Lloyd George, the Boer War and the North Wales press. In J. Hinks & C. Armstrong (Eds.), British Book Trade Conference: Vol. 22. The British book trade and the colonies (pp.100-120). London: EHS Press.

Thesis

[Author.] [(year submitted).] [Title.] [Level of thesis,] [awarding institution.]

Watten, P.L. (2002). High level modelling and design of display systems. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Sussex.

Web Page

[Author/editor,] [initials.] [(Year).] [Title.] [Retrieved date,] [from URL]

Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. Retrieved May 2, 2006, from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving

Newspaper Article

[Author.] [(Year, Month [numerical] day).] [Title of article,] [Newspaper name,] [page number(s).]

Thorpe, V. (2011, July 17). Publishers in hunt to sign elusive big beasts of rock, Observer, p.3.