The following information should act as a guideline for properly citing sources in-
text and on the Reference page of your work.
Reference Page
The first step is to determine what type of source it is. For example is it a book,
magazine article, web page, newspaper article on the internet etc.
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location:
Publisher.
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In A. Editor & B.
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal,
volume number (issue number if available). Retrieved month day, year, from
http://web address.
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Retrieved month date,
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C., Author, D., & Author, E.
If there are more than 6 authors
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C., Author, D., Author, E., Author, F. et al.
In-text Citations
Citations are placed within sentences and paragraphs for two main reasons.
1. So the reader can easily find the source on the References page and easily
locate the original source.
2. The reader can easily identify what information is being quoted or paraphrased
and whose information is being cited.
As a rule of thumb you need to include the authors last name and the year. If you cite a
specific part of a source (quote, table) , you must include the page number and chapter
number (if necessary). For electronic sources paragraph numbers can be used in place
of page numbers.
One Author
Two Authors
Personal Communication
The nature of this course may require personal communication to be cited in your
reports or papers. APA does not put non-published material on your References page.
Therefore, you only cite personal communication in-text. It should appear as follows: