American Psychological Association (APA): Books and Other Long Works

A. Print

B. Web (or Online Library)

Give the URL for the home page of the website or on the online library.

C. E-Book

Give the version in brackets after the title ("Kindle version," "Nook version," and so on). Include the DOI or, if a DOI is not available, the URL for the home page of the site from which you downloaded the book.

Wolf, D.A., & Folbre, N. (Eds.). (2012). Universal coverage of long-term care in the United States [Adobe Digital

Editions version]. Retrieved from http://www.russellsage.org/

D. Database

Give the URL for the database.

Bertz, N. (2015). Diaspora and nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational histories of race and urban space in

Tanzania. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/

Include the edition number (abbreviated) in parentheses after the title.

Harvey, P. (2013). An introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, history, and practices (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge

University Press. 

An anthology is a collection of works on a common theme, often with different author for the selections and usually with an editor for the entire volume.

A. Entire anthology

B. Selection in an anthology

If the volumes have been published over several years, give the span of years in the parentheses. If you have used only one volume of a multi-volume work, indicate the volume number after the title of the complete work; if the volume has its own title, add that title after the the volume number.

A. All Volumes

Khalakdina, M. (2008-2001). Human development in the Indian context: A socio-cultural focus (Vols. 1-2).

New Dehli, India: Sage.

B. One Volume, with Title

Palmer, S., & Gyllensten, K. (Eds.). Psychological stress, resilience, and well being: Vol. 2.

The measurement of stress. London, England: Sage.

Bloomberg, M. (2014). Foreword. In S. Goldsmith & S. Crawford, The responsive city: Engaging communities through

data-smart governing (pp. v-vi). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Leong, F. T. L. (Ed.). (2008) Encyclopedia of counseling (Vols. 1-4). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Bialoszewski, M. (2015). Memoir of the Warsaw uprising (M.G. Levine, Trans.). New York, NY: New York Review Books.

(Original work published 1970)

Carminati, G. G., & Mendez, A. (2012). Etapes de vie, etapes de soins [Stages of life, stages of care].

Chene-bourg, Switzerland: Medicine & Hygiene. 

A. Published

Moore, C. L. (2016). Stress and oppression: Identifying possible protective factors for African American men (Doctoral

dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (AAT 3717844)

B. Unpublished

Morcos, S. M. (2015). From Cairo to California: A journey through the lives and roles of Coptic women from Egypt to the

diaspora (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. 

Liu, C.-C., Hiraoki, O. Kong, S. C. & Kasihara, A. (2014). Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on

Computers in Education: ICCE 2014. Retrieved from Http://icce2014.jaist.ac.jp/icce2014/wp-content/uploads/2015/08

/ICCE2014-Main-Proceedings-lite.pdf

If the document has a number, place the number in parentheses after the title.

U.S. Census Bureau, of Bureau of Economic Analysis. (2015, December). U.S. international trade in goods and

services, October 2015 (Report No, CB-15-197, BEA15-60, FT-900 [15-10]). Retrieved from heep://www.census.gov

/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release

/ft900.pdf

If the publisher and the author are the same begin with the publisher. For a print source, use "Author" as the publisher at the end of the entry (see Organization as Author entry); for an online source, give the URL. If the report has a number, put it in parentheses following the title.

Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program. (2014, September). Linking higher education and social change.

Retrieved from http://fordifp.net/portals/0/IFP%20PDF/IFP%20Final%20Publication.pdf

The title of a court case is italicized in an in-text citation, but it is not in the reference list.

Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950). Retrieved from Cornell University Law School, Legal Information website:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0339_0629_ZS.html

It is not necessary to list sacred works such as the Bible or the Qur'an or classical Greek and Roman works (such as the Odyssey) in your reference list. Cite these sources in the text of your paper.