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• Chicago/Turabian
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• Harvard Style
• Legal Style
• MLA
• Internet Sources

Examples of American Psychological Association Style

Book:

Brown, S. D., & Lent, R. W. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of counseling psychology. New York: Wiley.

Book Chapter:          

          Coleman, P. C. (1999). Identity management in later life. In R. T. Woods (Ed.), Psychological problems of ageing:
                Assessment, treatment and care (pp. 49-72). New York: Wiley.

Conference Paper:

Tian, C. S., & Kok, L. P. (1991). Parent adolescent communication in Singaporean families. In Psychiatry in the
      90s: ASEAN perspectives: Proceedings of the 3rd ASEAN Congress on Psychiatry & Mental Health (pp.
      315-320). Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Psychiatric Association.

Journal Article:

Boey, K. M. (1998). Social network and the subjective well-being of the elderly in Hong Kong. Asia Pacific
       Journal of Social Work, 8 (2), 5-15.

Newsletter article with no author:

Weld process changes enhance productivity. (2001, September). Welding Design & Fabrication, 74 (9), 24-27.

Newspaper article (single page & multiple or discontinuous pages):

Wong, S. M. (2004, February 3). Forgotten souls of Woodbridge. The Straits Times, p. H1.
        

Sleep on the job: It improves performance. (2002, August 14). The Straits Times, pp. H3, H8.

Online newspaper article:

Davie, S. (2005, August 7). NUS in top 10? It's poised for leap. The Straits Times. Retrieved October 6, 2005,
       from Factiva.

Unpublished thesis:

Mehta, K. (1995). The dynamics of adjustment of the very old in Singapore. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.
        National University of Singapore, Dept of Social Work & Psychology.

Article in an Internet-only journal:

Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being. Prevention &
      Treatment 3, Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from
      http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html

 

Government reports available on government agency website, no publication date indicated:

United States sentencing Commission. (n.d.). 1997 sourcebook of federal sentencing statistics. Retrieved
      December 8, 1999, from http://www.ussc.gov/annrpt/1997/sbtoc97.htm

 

Report from a private organization, available on organization website:

Canarie, Inc. (1997, September 27). Towards a Canadian health IWAY: Vision, opportunities and future steps.
       Retrieved November 8, 2000, from http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/pdf/health/healthvision.doc

Examples of In-text citations

Citation of a work discussed in a secondary source:

Text citation:
          Seidenberg and McClelland's study (as cited in Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993) ...

Reference list entry:

          Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., Atkins, P., & Haller, M. (1993). Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and
                 parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review, 100, 589-608.
 

Citation of a typical book chapter/journal article/book:

Text citation:

           (Balota, Dolan, & Duchek, 2000).

 Reference list entry:
          Balota, D. A., Dolan, P. O., & Duchek, J. M. (2000). Memory changes in healthy older adults. In E. Tulving &

       F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of memory (pp. 411–425). New York: Oxford University

       Press.

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