Formatting References - APA Help - 7th Edition - Research Guides at Baker College

Sample Reference Page With Notes

(Running Head is not required for student papers)

Page number continued from rest of paper (aligned right)

The word References is centered, bold

References

References are in alphabetical order by the first part of the reference (either author or title).

This page is double-spaced with no extra space between references (not quite as shown)

Clear as mud; Health insurance. (2014, July 26). The Economist, 412, 26.

Rachels, J. (2010). God and human attitudes. In B. N. Waller, Consider ethics: Theory, readings, and contemporary issues (3rd ed., pp. 11-15). Prentice Hall.

Reiter, P. (2007, November). Human ecology and human behavior: Climate change and health in perspective. http://www.csccc.info/reports/report_22.pdf

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2013). Health, United States, 2013 (DHHS Publication No. 2014-1232). http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus13.pdf

Hanging indent is set at 1/2 inch (0.5").

This means that the first line will be aligned at the left margin and any additional lines will be set at 1/2 inch from the left margin.

References: Formatting Rules

Choose the part of the citation to see the formatting rules. Then use the drop-down menu to see examples for different circumstances. For a visual representation of what to do when you are missing parts of a traditional citation, see this article: Missing Reference Information.

Author	Book / Periodical / Web Document Title	Page Number
Date	Publication Information (Only for Books/eBooks)	Retrieval Information
Article Title	Volume / Issue (Only for articles)

Author

Format

Invert name: LastName, FirstInitial.
Include a period after each initial.
Include a comma after each author and an ampersand (&) before the name of the last author.
Include comma after the author name, before the ampersand (&).
3 or more authors: The reference entry should list the names of up to 20 authors.
Keep the names in the same order as they appear in the citation. Do not change the order.
Finish with a period.

Example:

In-Text Citations

Paraphrases:

Author entries:

Format: (LastName, YYYY) or (Author1 & Author2, YYYY).
Only last name; no initials, no credentials: Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.
End of the line punctuation, outside the close parenthesis.
For works by multiple authors: in running text (signal phrase), use and instead of &: Author1 and Author2 (YYYY) agree with.....

Title entries:

Articles, chapters, web documents: ("First Two Words", YYYY).
Books, brochure, report: (First Two Words, YYYY).
End of the line punctuation, outside the close parenthesis.

Quotations:

Use same Author & Year format.
Include location reference:
- Page number,if using photocopies or a PDF document.
  p. 1 if one page;
  pp. 1- 2 if quote goes over one page.
- para number, if using an HTML document.
  para. 4.

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Sample Reference Page With Notes

References: Formatting Rules

In-Text Citations

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