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APA 7th Edition Citation Style Guide: Citing Textual Works

APA update for the 7th edition

Journal Articles

Gross, M., & Latham, D. (2012). What’s skill got to do with it?: Information literacy skills and self‐views of ability among first‐year college students. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,  63(3), 574–583. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21681

Books

An entire book

Coplan, A., & Goldie, P. (2011). Empathy: Philosophical and psychological perspectives. Oxford University Press.

An eBook

Blankenship, L. (2019). Changing the subject: A theory of rhetorical empathy. University Press of Colorado.          http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvr43mnt

A chapter in an edited book

Kerasidou, A., & Horn, R. (2018). Empathy in healthcare: The limits and scope of empathy in public and private systems. In T. Fielder, J. Horden, & A. Papanikitas (Eds.), Marketisation, ethics and healthcare: Policy, practice and moral formation (pp. 163–173). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186351

Report by government agency, task force, or working group

 

By individual authors:

Banderia, L., Barojan, D., Braga, R., Penarradonda, J., & Fernanda Perez Arguello, M. (2019, March 28). Disinformation in democracies: Strengthening digital resilience in Latin America. Atlantic Council. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/disinformation-democracies-strengthening-digital-resilience-latin-america/

By group:

Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement National Task Force on behalf of the Global Perspective Institute, Inc. (GPI, Inc.) and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. (2011, October 2). Crucible moment: College learning and democracy’s future. U.S. Department of Education. https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/college-learning-democracys-future/crucible-moment.pdf

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. (2004, July 22). The 9/11 Commission report: Final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/pdf/GPO-911REPORT.pdf

Legal References

Federal statute

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 42 U.S.C. §18001(2010). https://www.congress.gov/111/plaws/publ148/PLAW111publ148.pdf

Federal testimony

GSA FY2019 budget request, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, 116th Cong. (2018, April 17). (testimony of Emily W. Murphy). https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/congressional-testimony/gsa-fy2019-budget-request

Business Sources

MarketLine. (2019, September 23). Company profile Starbucks Corporation [SWOT analysis]. Business Source Complete. https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/business-source-complete

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What is a DOI?

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies content and provides a persistent link to its location on the internet- regardless of the database the article is retrieved from. 

As older editions of APA were not standardized, you can check older citations through Crossref.

Periodicals

Newspaper (accessed online)

The Learning Network. (2019, October 4). On-demand webinar: Use photos to practice critical thinking and literacy skills. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/learning/sign-up-for-our-free-webinar-on-teaching-with-intriguing-photographs.html?searchResultPosition=2

Natanson, H. (2019, December 2). This Guatemalan immigrant survived being homeless to become a college graduate. Now, he's teaching other immigrants at the school that helped save him. The Washington Post.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-guatemalan-immigrant-survived-being-homeless-to-become-a-college-graduate-now-hes-teaching-other-immigrants-at-the-school-that-helped-save-him/2019/12/29/d25ab848-1dfa-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html

Print newspaper

Bhattarai, A. (2020, January 19). Keep calm and block on: Toy giant Lego sets its sights on a growing market: Stressed-out adults. The Washington Post. G1

Blog

Barth, S. (2019, November 19). The VSCO girl trend explained, if you still don't know what that means. Her Campus. https://www.hercampus.com/culture/vsco-girl-meme-trend-explained-tiktok

Comment on an online periodical or blog post

Grdnhound. (2019, December 30). This is a story that needs to be part of the national news, not only local. There are many young [Comment on the article "This Guatemalan immigrant survived being homeless to become a college graduate. Now, he's teaching other immigrants at the school that helped save him"]. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-guatemalan-immigrant-survived-being-homeless-to-become-a-college-graduate-now-hes-teaching-other-immigrants-at-the-school-that-helped-save-him/2019/12/29/d25ab848-1dfa-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html#comments-wrapper

 

Data Sets, Software, and Tests

Wilson, D. B., Olaghere, A., & Kimbrell, C. S. Trauma-focused interventions for justice-involved and at-risk youth: A meta-analysis, 1980-2015 (ICPSR 37439) [Data set]. ICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37439.v1

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