APA (6th ed.) Citing Guide

• Editor(s) names
• Edition
• Section name & author (chapter, short story, essay)

Reference page entry:

Rourke, J.T. (Ed.). (2014). Taking sides. Clashing views in world politics (16th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

In-text citation:

(Rourke, 2014)

Reference page entry:

Morrison, T. (2012). Kiss, bow, or shake hands: Sales and marketing: The essential cultural guide--from presentations and promotions to communicating and closing.  New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

In-text citation:

(Morrison, 2012).

Reference page entry:

Gallant, M. (2005). My heart is broken. In R. Brown & D. Bennett (Eds.), Canadian short stories (pp. 130-136). Toronto, ON: Pearson Education Canada Inc.

In-text citation:

(Gallant, 2005)

TIP: Books with essays or chapters written by different authors often have an editor as well. You need to include this in your reference page entry.

Reference page entry:

Marcus, D. A. (2011). The power of wagging tails: A doctor’s guide to dog therapy and healing. Retrieved from http://books.google.ca/books

In-text citation:

(Marcus, 2011)

If your source has two authors, format the authors' names (Lastname, Initials) and include with an & in between.

Your reference page entry will start with:

Schöpfel, J. & Leduc, C.

In-text citation:

(Schöpfel & Leduc, 2012)

If your source has 3 to 5 authors, format the authors' names as shown (Lastname, Initials), and insert all authors' names before the date, including an "&" before the last author:

In this example, your reference page entry would start with the authors' names in this format:

Bush, A.A., Nipperess, D.A., Duursma, D.E., Theischinger, G., Turak, E. & Hughes, L.

If you have 3-5 authors: the first time you use an in-text citation, include all authors' last names.

(Bush, Nipperess, Duursma, Theischinger, Turak & Hughes, 2014)

In the next or any other instances, use only the first author's last name and add "et al.", with the date:

(Bush et al., 2014)

If you have 6 or more authors, use only the first author's last name and add "et al." with the date when writing your in-text ctiation:

(Bush et al., 2014)

If your source has more than 8 authors, include the first six authors' names in the correct format (Lastname, Initials), then add a ... and include the last author's name.

In this example, the reference page entry authors' names would look like this:

Ngongo, P.B., Priddy, F., Park, H., Becker, J. Bender, B., Fast, P., ... Mebrahtu, T.

TIP: You may need to click on the article title (as above) to see all authors' names and retrieve the last author for your reference page entry.

In-text citation:

(Ngongo et al., 2012)

Publication Date is usually found anywhere from the middle of the page to the bottom of the verso. If publication date is unavailable, then use Copyright year. These two concepts are not the same even though the years usually match. 

Publisher name may be found near the top of the verso or at the bottom of the main title page.

Place of publication can usually be found at the bottom of the main title page (or the top of the verso/other side).

DOI is the short form for "Digital Object Identifier", a unique number (eg: 10.1037.a0034500) given to SOME resources, designed to help find a particular items quickly. DOIs are sometimes used in citations.

In the library databases, look for the DOI in the information about the article:

If a DOI is available, you do not need to use "Retrieved from..." in your citation, just use the DOI.

If the resource does not have a DOI, APA guidelines ask you to find the base URL of the database to provide as the "Retrieved from" URL. Try searching Google for the database name - in this case "EBSCO eBook collection".

You may also want to ask your professor if they'd prefer to know what Library database you used. You could substitute "EBSCO eBook collection" for the URL if your professor prefers.