BIBLIOGRAPHY GUIDELINES

Bibliography Guidelines

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[This page is a summary of rules from the APA Publication Manual. The version you are reading was revised 10/10/96 and was edited and revised again on September 5, 2000 with Bill Scott of the College of Wooster. I have made every effort to keep this document accurate, but readers have occasionally pointed out errors and inconsistencies which required correction. I am grateful to them and invite additional feedback. This document may be reproduced freely if this paragraph is included. --Russ Dewey, rdewey@gasou.edu]

PLEASE NOTE THAT CREDIT FOR THE SOURCE IS GIVEN

Books:

_____Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

_____American Psychiatric Association. (1990). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

(note: "Author" is used as above when author and publisher are identical.)

_____Freud, S. (1961). The ego and the id. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 19, pp. 3-66). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1923)

In text this would be cited as (Freud, 1923/1961).

Group or institutional authors

_____University of Pittsburgh. (1993). The title goes here. Journal of Something, 8, 5-9.

Journal article

_____Spitch, M. L., Verzy, H. N., & Wilkie, D. M. (1993). Subjective shortening: A model of pigeons' memory for event duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 9, 14-30.

Letter to the editor

_____O'Neill, G. W. (1992, January). In support of DSM-III [Letter to the editor]. APA Monitor, 4-5.

Magazine article

_____Gardner, H. (1991, December). Do babies sing a universal song? Psychology Today,70-76.

Newsletter article

_____Brown, L.S. (1993, Spring). My research with orangs. The Psychology Department Newsletter, 3, 2.

The date is given as it appears on the publication. For anonymous newspaper articles, see the previous section titled "Anonymous or unknown authors."

Pamphlet

_____Just Say No Foundation. (1992). Saving our youth. (9th ed.) [Brochure]. Washington, DC: Author.

Electronic media

Online periodical:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (2000). Title of article. Title ofPeriodical, xx, xxxxxx. Retrieved month
day, year, from source.

Online document:

Author, A. A. (2000). Title of work. Retrieved month day, year, from source.

http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php This is an automated tool for proper format for books, web pages, magazines, interviews, encyclopedias, journals, newspapers, and more. ***Be sure to indicate APA (not MLA) format!

http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html Link to web site for all sources of bibliography.