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APA Style Guide: Citing Books

Things to Include

Reference Page

  • Author
  • Date of publication
  • Book title (in italics)
  • Edition (if the edition is anything other than first)
  • Publisher
  • Citations with more than one line of text should have a hanging indent of 1/2 inch or 5 spaces.

In-Text Citations

  • Should include author's information and the year of publication

Basic Format for Books

Reference Page Format

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (# edition). Publisher.

 

Reference Page Examples

Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

 

In-Text Citations Example

(Sapolsky, 2017)

(Jackson, 2019)