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Source: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/g_apaguide.shtml#jour-e
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H O W T O U S E T H E A P A R E F E R E N C I N G S T Y LE
When quoting directly or indirectly from a source, the source must be acknowledged in
the text by author name and year of publication.
If quoting directly, a location reference such as the page number or paragraph number
is also required.
Samovar and Porter (1997) point out that "language involves attaching meaning to symbols"
(p.188).
Alternatively: "Language involves attaching meaning to symbols" (Samovar & Porter, 1997,
p.188).
One of the most important phases of our special guests was to get information that would
throw light on degeneration of the facial pattern that occurs so often in our modern
civilization. This has its expression in the narrowing and lengthening of the face and the
development of crooked teeth. (p. 174)
If you quote from online material and there are no page numbers (e.g. HTML based
document), use the paragraph number (para.) instead.
"Prevalence rates of antenatal major and minor depression have been estimated in
community-based studies to range from 7% to 15% of all pregnancies" (Grote, Swartz,
Geibel & Zuckoff, 2009, para. 2).
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b. Indirect quotation/paraphrasing
Attaching meaning to symbols is considered to be the origin of written language (Samovar &
Porter, 1997).
N.B. Page numbers are optional when paraphrasing, although authors are encouraged to
include them, especially when it assists the reader to locate the reference in long pieces of
text (Publication Manual, p. 171).
Arnett (as cited in Claiborne & Drewery, 2010) suggests there is an emerging adult stage in
the lifespan of humans, covering young people between the ages of 18 and 25 years.
N.B. List Claiborne & Drewery in your reference list, not Arnett.
2. REFERENCES LIST
At the end of your assignment, you are required to provide the full bibliographic
information for each source cited in text.
Start the list of References on a new page at the end of your assignment - do not use
footnotes (Publication Manual, p. 37)
References must be listed in alphabetical order by author.
References should use the hanging indent format
e.g. King, M. (2000). Wrestling with the angel: A life of Janet Frame. Auckland, New Zealand:
Viking.
N.B. If the book is available online, a retrieval statement or DOI is required after (3) Title.
Exclude (4) Publication Information. See example.
b. Periodicals
Items published on a regular basis, such as journals, magazines and newspapers, are
known as serials or periodicals. Include the same elements as for a book, but exclude
the publication information and add the volume, issue and page number(s) instead:
(1) Author(s) (2) Date (3) Title of article (4) Title of Periodical (5) Volume, Issue and
Page numbers
e.g. Sainaghi, R. (2008). Strategic position and performance of winter destinations. Tourism
Review, 63(4), 40-57.
N.B. If the article is available online, a retrieval statement or DOI is required after the page
numbers. See example.
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c. Webpages (unpublished and informally published work)
Include the same elements as for a book, but exclude the publication information and
add a retrieval statement in its place.
e.g. Statistics New Zealand. (2007). New Zealand in profile 2007. Retrieved from
http://www.stats.govt.nz
N.B. Include a retrieval date if the source material is likely to change over time (Publication
Manual, p. 192). See example.
3. KEY POINTS
(1) Author(s):
(2) Date:
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If an author has published more than one item in the same year, add alphabetical
characters a, b etc. immediately after the year.
In text:
As discussed by Lohan (2009b), it is ... Moreover, Lohan (2009a) concludes ...
Book titles are italicised, with the first letter of the first word of the main title and the
subtitle in capital letters. Proper nouns also begin with a capital letter.
Journal titles (including magazines and newspapers) are italicised and all key words in
the journal title begin with a capital letter.
Chapters in books and journal article titles are in lowercase except for the first letter of
the first word of the title, subtitle, and any proper nouns (Publication Manual, pp. 102-
103).
Additional information:
A description of the work goes in square brackets [ ] after the title. e.g. [DVD],
[PowerPoint slides], [Poster], [Letter to the editor]
e.g. Christchurch Methodist Central Mission. (1984). Durham Street Church: 120 years
anniversary brochure: 1864-1984 [Brochure]. Christchurch, New Zealand: Author.
Give the location (city) of the publisher - give the first city listed only.
All publishing cities now require the state or province, if applicable, and country (NEW).
For the United States, use the city name, then the 2-letter postal code instead of the
United States (Publication Manual, p. 187).
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American cities Thousand Oaks, CA
Non-American cities Hamilton, New Zealand
London, England
Non-American cities with a state Sydney, NSW, Australia
Publisher: Used for books only, not journal, magazine or newspaper articles.
Do not include words like Publishers, Co., or Inc. However, keep words like Books or
Press.
Use the first publisher listed if multiple publishers are given.
When the author is the publisher of the work, use the word 'Author' in the publisher
field. See example.
N.B. Using a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is the preferred method of identifying online
material such as journal articles, books and reports. For researchers, when a DOI is
available, no matter whether electronic or print, include it (Publication Manual, p. 189). See
example.
Books
Book - one author
King, M. (2000). Wrestling with the angel: A life of Janet (King, 2000) or
Frame. Auckland, New Zealand: Viking.
King (2000) compares
Frame with "..." (p. 34).
Treviño, L. K., & Nelson. K. A. (2007). Managing (Treviño & Nelson, 2007)
business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right. or
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Treviño and Nelson
N.B. Use the ampersand (&) between the two authors' (2007) illustrate this ...
names, except when paraphrasing in text where and is
used (Publication Manual, p. 175).
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Book - three to five authors (NEW)
Krause, K.-L., Bochner, S., & Duchesne, S. (2006). (Krause, Bochner, &
Educational psychology for learning and teaching Duchesne, 2006) or
(2nd ed.). South Melbourne, Vic., Australia:
Thomson. Krause, Bochner and
Duchesne (2006)
N.B. For six or seven authors, see example (Journal recommend "..." (p. 32).
article with DOI or eight or more (Magazine - print
version). In subsequent citations:
According to Krause et al.
(2006)
N.B. When the author and the publisher are the same, In subsequent citations:
use Author in the publisher field. List in the References WHO (2008) highlight
list by the first significant word of the organisation. For the ...
group authors, the parent body precedes a subdivision
(Publication Manual, p. 183). N.B. Some group authors
may be abbreviated in
subsequent citations if
they are readily
recognisable.
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Book - no author (Anonymous)
Book - no author
N.B. If no author is stated, the title takes the author N.B. The key words of the
position, but check to see whether it should be a book title are capitalised
corporate / group author as above. See dictionary / when used in text, but not
encyclopedia or newspaper for further examples. in the References list. See
the Publication Manual,
pp. 101-103, 176
about capitalisation
protocols in the APA style.
Book - edited
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Book - Chapter in edited book
Book - Translated
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Dictionary or Encyclopedia - Entry
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Thesis (except from the US) - electronic version (NEW)
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Journal article - electronic version
with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Shepherd, R., Barnett, J., Cooper, H., Coyle, A., Moran- (Shepherd et al., 2007) or
Ellis, J., Senior, V., & Walton, C. (2007). Towards an
understanding of British public attitudes concerning Shepherd et al. (2007)
human cloning. Social Science & Medicine, 65(2), highlight the ...
377-392. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.018
N.B. If there are six or
N.B. A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by seven authors, list all
a registration agency to identify content and provide a authors in the reference
persistent link to its location on the Internet. list. From the first citation
in text, use et al. after the
first author (NEW). See
magazine example for
eight or more authors.
Harrison, B., & Papa, R. (2005). The development of an (Harrison & Papa, 2005)
indigenous knowledge program in a New Zealand or
Maori-language immersion school. Anthropology and
Education Quarterly, 36(1), 57-72. Retrieved from In their research, Harrison
Academic Research Library database. and Papa (2005)
established ...
N.B. For undergraduate students, give the name of the
database, as in the example above (do not include the
database URL). It is no longer necessary to include the
date of retrieval.
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Journal article - Internet only
Snell, D., & Hodgetts, D. (n.d.). The psychology of (Snell & Hodgetts, n.d.)
heavy metal communities and white supremacy. Te or
Kura Kete Aronui, 1. Retrieved from
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/tkka Snell and Hodgetts (n.d.)
identified "..." (para. 3)
N.B. (n.d.)= no date. As there are no page numbers, cite
the paragraph number in text.
Magazines
Magazine - print version
von Drehle, D., Ghosh, B., Scherer, M., Zaidi, S. H., (von Drehle et al., 2009)
Baker, A., James, R., …Peters, G. (2009, October or
12). An enemy within. Time South Pacific
[Australia/New Zealand editon], 174(14), 12-17. Von Drehle et al. (2009)
assert ...
N.B. Full date is used for weekly magazines; month and
year for monthly magazines. N.B. If an author's name
which usually begins with
If there are eight or more authors, list the first six, then a lower case letter
three elipses (…) and finish with the last author (NEW). appears at the beginning
of a sentence, it must be
capitalised.
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Newspaper
Print version
Cumming, G. (2003, April 5). Cough that shook the (Cumming, 2003) or
world. The New Zealand Herald, p. B4.
Cumming (2003)
N.B. Include p. or pp. before the page number. This is reports ...
used for newspapers only, not magazines or journals.
p = 1 page, pp. more than one page. If page numbers
are discontinous, separate page numbers with a
comma. e.g. pp. A1, A4-5.
Electronic version
Cumming, G. (2003, April 5). Cough that shook the (Cumming, 2003) or
world. The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved from
http://www.nzherald.co.nz Cumming (2003)
reports ...
N.B. Use the URL of the homepage of the newspaper to
avoid non-working URLs. It is no longer necessary to
include the date of retrieval.
Drivers reject fuel prices driven by war threat. (2003, ("Drivers Reject Fuel
March 7). The Timaru Herald, p.1. Prices," 2003)
N.B. If there is no author, the article title comes first. In N.B. Use capital letters
the in text citation, abbreviate the title, use double and double quotation
quotation marks and capital letters (Publication Manual, marks.
p. 176).
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Audiovisual
Film - Motion Picture
Vasile, T. (Producer), & Fellini, F. (Director). (2001). (Vasile & Fellini, 2001)
Roma [Motion picture]. United States: MGM Home
Entertainment.
N.B.
The Beatles. (2003). Across the universe. On Let it be... (The Beatles, 2003, track
naked [CD]. Hollywood, CA: Capital Records. 10)
Television programme
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Audio podcast (NEW)
Statistics New Zealand. (2007). New Zealand in profile (Statistics New Zealand,
2007. Retrieved from http://www.stats.govt.nz 2007)
Wiki
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Online discussion (NEW)
Chalmers, D. (2000, November 17). Seeing with sound [Online (Chalmers, 2000)
forum comment]. Retrieved from
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.psychology.consciousn
ess/
Wadard. (2009, June 15). Australia's climate bill may be (Wadard, 2009)
scuttled [Web log message]. Retrieved from
http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/
Leelefever. (2007, May 29). Wiki in plain English [Video (Leelefever, 2007)
file]. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
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Course handout / Lecture notes - electronic version
N.B. Put the format in square brackets after the title, and
add retrieval statement (URL or MyWeb or Moodle or
EdLink etc.).
Legal Material
APA recommends the use of The Bluebook: A uniform system of citation (18th ed.
2005) for referencing legal material - see NZ section at p. 297
It is regulated by the
Children's Commissioner
Act 2003
Professor Clarke
(personal communication,
March 19, 2004)
commented that...
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Conference paper as part of a book of proceedings
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Annual Report - electronic version
In Reference List In
Text
Citati
on
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Images, tables and figures
Illustrations, maps and photographs, etc (excluding tables) are referred to as figures.
If it is not your own work, the source must be acknowledged in full below the figure or
table as a figure caption or table note. The full citation also goes in the References list.
Figures
The caption goes beneath the image with the source credited at the end of the caption
(Publication Manual, pp. 158-167).
As in examples, italicise the heading "Figure" and the number.
Figure 1. Name of Picture. From [Adapted from] “Title of Article,” by A. A. Author and B. B.
Author, year, Title of Journal, Volume, p. xx.
Figure 2. Name of Picture. From [Adapted from] Title of Book (p. xx), by A. A. Author and B.
B. Author, year, Place of Publication: Publisher.
Tables
The caption goes above the table, with the source included as a note below the table
beginning with the word Note (Publication Manual, pp. 138-141).
From [Adapted from] “Title of Article,” by A. N. Author and B. D. Author, year, Title of Journal,
Volume, p. XX.
From [Adapted from] Title of Book (p. xx), by A T. Author and T. P. Author, year, Place of
Publication: Publisher.
Copyright
N.B. For PhD candidates (and students submitting a three or four-paper master's
thesis), permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained. If you are
reproducing a graphic, chart, or table, you must provide a note at the bottom of the item
that includes copyright information and a permissions statement.
Copyright permissions are done as a footnote with the information as above, concluding
with: Copyright [year] by the Name of Copyright Holder. Reprinted [or adapted] with
permission.
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For detailed information on copyright and permissions, see Publication Manual, pp. 38,
173. See also Copyright Guidelines for Research Students and the University of
Waikato's Copyright Information web pages.
Example:
Figure 4. Hamilton Garden. From [Adapted from] Title of Book (p. xx), by A. A. Author and B.
B. Author, year, Place of Publication: Publisher. Copyright Year by Publisher. Reprinted with
permission.
If you photograph a person, a signed release from that person is required giving
permission for the photo to be used (Publication Manual, p. 166).
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