APA Style

What's NOT in an #APAStyle reference for a book or an ebook?
👉 The file format, platform, and device (e.g., Kindle) are details not included in the reference.
👉 The location of the publisher is also not included in the reference.

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📖 Printed books and their ebook equivalents use the same reference format. Templates and examples are in Section 10.2 of the #APAStyle Publication Manual (7th ed.).

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APA Style Reference: Greenberg, L. S. (2025). On becoming emotion focused. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000466-000 Parenthetical citation: (Greenberg, 2025) Narrative citation: Greenberg (2025)

References for authored books include the author name(s), the year, the title, and the publisher's name. When a book has a DOI, include that as the last detail in the source element of the reference, after the publisher's name.

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Are your students citing ChatGPT? Make it simple with APA Style’s four reference elements: author, date, title, and source.
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APA Style FAQ Q: In a reference, if an article's title ends with a question mark, should you also include the period that usually ends the title element? A: Don't add a period. The question mark replaces the usual period. Example: Peng, D., Iqbal, Z., & Zentall, T. R. (2026). Ephemeral reward task: Why is it so difficult for pigeons to learn it? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 52(1), 9–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000397 (In the image, there is a circle drawing attention to the question mark that appears after the word "it" and before the beginning of the journal's title.)

This FAQ is about punctuation in references. Each element of #APAStyle references (i.e., the author, date, title, and source) usually ends with a period.

👉 An exception is when the title element ends in a question mark, as in this example.

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#APAStyle references include four elements:
🔹 author
🔹 date
🔹 title
🔹 source

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Our webinar about AI in academic writing is now available on our YouTube channel!

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This free tutorial includes guidelines about
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🔹 bias-free language
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🔹 tables and figures
🔹 in-text citations
🔹 paraphrasing
🔹 quotations
🔹 reference list format and order

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Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style

If you will be learning and using #APAStyle for the first time this semester, don't miss our free tutorial!

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How do you cite Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech?

See our post on the #APAStyle blog.

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Videos in our YouTube playlist for students provide strategies for learning and using APA Style in class papers.

Playlist:
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Librarians and writing centers:
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These #APA7 guidelines and examples of the format are in Section 8.9 of the Publication Manual (7th ed.) and also on our site:

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#CiteYourSources #APAStyle

“Because readers cannot retrieve the information in personal communications, personal communications are not included in the reference list; they are cited in the text only. Give the initial(s) and surname of the communicator, and provide as exact a date as possible.”

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A source work that cannot be recovered by readers (e.g., an email, text, or direct message) should be cited as a #PersonalCommunication.

👉 "Use a personal communication citation only when a recoverable source is not available."

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APA Style FAQ: What formatting should I use when writing about letters or words? A: Use quotation marks "to refer to a letter, word, phrase, or sentence as a linguistic example or as itself." This guideline is from Publication Manual (7th ed.) Section 6.7. Examples: the letter "e" We highlighted the words "yes" and no." and The word "Monday" begins with the letter "M."

When writing about writing (i.e., writing about letters, words, phrases, sentences, and so forth), careful formatting helps the reader understand your meaning. In this week's FAQ, we address the question of how to format letters or words (use quotation marks).

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When creating a reference for a standard or guideline (e.g., OSHA), use the report template from Section 10.4 of the Publication Manual (7th ed.).

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❓ What other examples might be useful on this page?

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❓ What other types of book examples would be useful to include?

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Our site also include more example book references, including those for diagnostic manuals like the DSM, children's books and other illustrated books, religious books, and even classroom course packs.

🔗https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples#textual-works

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When creating a reference to a book or book chapter, the format depends on whether the book is an authored or an edited book. This post includes details and examples of each:
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When creating an APA Style reference for a journal article, if the journal does not use volume, issue, and/or page numbers, just omit those missing items from the reference.

🔗 Examples are on the #APAStyle website at apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...

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Happy New Year!

As we plan 2026 posts for the #APAStyle blog and new handouts and guides, we'd love your input!

❓ Which have been the most useful?
❓ What topics would you like us to cover more?

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Happy New Year!

As we plan 2026 posts for the #APAStyle blog and new handouts and guides, we'd love your input!

❓ Which have been the most useful?
❓ What topics would you like us to cover more?

🔗 apastyle.apa.org/blog
🔗 apastyle.apa.org/instructiona...

#APA7 #APAguide #TeachingAPAStyle

Will you be learning or teaching APA Style in 2026?

📰 Subscribe to our free monthly newsletter for #APAStyle news, tips, and links to teaching resources.

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In our blog post about citing generative AI tools, we provide reference examples for Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.

❓ What other chatbots are you using (and citing)?
❓ Are you using and citing other AI tools that are not considered chatbots?

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We’re grateful to every institution who has adopted the @apastyle.bsky.social Manual in its first year! Help spread the word about access to this new resource with our Marketing Guide for #Librarians: https://bit.ly/4rI72dX

Note that in an #APAStyle paper, letters used as statistical symbols and algebraic variables, as in the examples above, should be italicized (per guidance in Chapter 6).

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"For a minus sign indicating subtraction, use a space on each side of the sign (e.g., z – y = x); for a minus sign indicating a negative value, use a space before but not after the sign (e.g., –8.25)."

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