APA Style

General Elements

Reference

Author. (Date). Title of work. Publisher/Retrieval data.

In Text

(Author’s Last Names, Publication Year)

Book Reference Page

Schroeder, A. (2008). The snowball: Warren Buffett and the

business of life. New York, NY: Bantam Books.

In Text Citation

(Schroeder, 2008) OR According to Schroeder (2008)….

Journal from a databaseReference Page

Goolsbee, A. & Syverson, C. (2008, November). How do incumbents respond to

the

threat of entry? Evidence from the major airlines. The Quarterly Journal of

Economics, 123, 1611-1633. Retrieved from: http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/

In Text Citation

(Goolsbee & Syverson, 2008) OR According to Goolsbee and Syverson(2008)….

Website Reference Page

Humana. (2013). Humana on health care reform. Retrieved from

https://www.humana.com/about/public-policy/humana-on-the-

issues/healthcare-

reform

In Text Citation

(Humana, 2013) OR Humana’s (2013) website….

Variations

•No author = start citation with title

•No date = (n.d.)•Multiple authors

•Quotations and in text citations (author, date, p., pp. or

para. #)

•DOI number