Guide to citing and referencing

academic resources – APA

Referencing Style
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 Books/Articles
• In-text citations
• A page number is “required if you are paraphrasing, summarising or
quoting directly” (Wohab, 1997, p. 23)
• Wohab (1966, p. 12) suggests that
• If you are only citing the main idea of the book: (Wohab, 1997)
Book with more than one author: (Spolsky & Hult, 2007).
 Reference list
• Include information in the following order:
• author's surname, and initial(s)
• year of publication
• title of publication (in italics and with minimal capitalisation),
• edition (if applicable. Abbreviated as 'edn’)
• With city and country for publisher
• place of publication.
• Karskens, G. (1997). The Rocks: life in early Sydney. Carlton, Australia:
Melbourne University Press.
• Ward, R. (1966). The Australian legend (2nd ed).Melbourne, Australia:
Oxford University Press.
 Reference list
• Book with more than one author
• Haslam, S. A., Reicher, S., & Platow, M. (2010). The new psychology of
leadership: Identity, influence, and power. New York, NY: Psychology
Press.
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• Schaefer, R. T. (2013). Sociology: A brief introduction. Singapore: The
McGraw-Hill Companies.
• Functionalist perspective indicates that -----(Schaefer, 2013)
• (Schaefer, 2013, p. 13)
 Edited book collections
• In-text citations (citing a chapter)
• A book collection consists of a collection of articles or chapters, each
by different authors, but compiled by editor(s). If you want to cite a
particular article/chapter, cite the author(s) of the chapter in the text:
• (Juslin, 2008) or with specific page number: (Juslin, 2008, p. 12).
 References (citing a chapter)
• When you use an article/chapter from a book collection, the title of the
article appears without italic and the title of the book will be italicised.
• Include information in the following order:
• author's surname and initial
• year of publication
• name of article initial(s) and surname(s) of editor(s)
• (ed.) or (eds)
• name of collection (the name on the title page) in italics and minimal
capitalisation
• place of publication
• publisher
• page range.
• Curthoys. A. (1997). History and identity. In W. Hudson & G. C. Bolton
(Eds.), Creating Australia: changing Australian history (pp.23-38).
Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
 Citing an entire book collection
• In-text citations (citing an entire book collection)
• If you want to cite the entire book, refer to the editor(s) of the
collection in the text:
• (Hudson & Bolton, 1997)
• References
• Hudson. W., & Bolton G. (Eds.). (1997). Creating Australia: changing
Australian history. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
 Journal Article (print)
• In-text citations
• If the page number is required, as it is for summarising, paraphrasing
and direct quoting:
• (Kozulin, 1993, p. 257)
• If you are citing the main idea of the article only:
• (Kozulin, 1993)
 Reference list
• Include information in the following order:
• author's surname and initial
• year of publication
• title of the article
• volume number and issue number
• page range of the article
• DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available.
• Kozulin. A. (1993). Literature as a psychological tool. Educational
Psychologist. 28(3), 253-265, DOI:10.1207/s15326985ep2803_5.
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• Journal article with six or more authors – in-text (Amsel et al., 2009).
• Ref list : Amsel, E., Johnston, A., Alvarado, E., Kettering, J., Rankin, L. &
Ward, M. (2009). The effect of perspective on misconceptions in
psychology: A test of conceptual change theory. Journal of
Instructional Psychology, 36, 289-295.
Ref list and in-text
• Newspaper article/news: in-text ( New Age, 2020, November 15).
• Teenage girl raped in moving bus. (2020, November 28). New Age.
Retrieved from https://www.newagebd.net/article/121112/teenage-
girl-raped-in-moving-bus
• Newspaper article with author name:
• Parvez, A. (2020, October 8). Dhorshon kono noutik somossha noi.
Prothom Alo. Retrieved from
https://www.prothomalo.com/opinion/column