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Official APA Style Template for Books

Book citation template

Official APA Style Template for Edited Books

Template Edited book

Book Format and Examples

Books and eBooks 

For eBooks, follow the example for the type of book you are using and add either the DOI or the URL at the end. For SPU Library eBooks, stop the reference after the publisher name. Do not include the database name or a URL. If there is a DOI, then include that.

For

Basic Format:

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (xth ed.). Publisher.

(include edition, but not if it's the first edition)

 

One author:

 Phillips, S. (2010). The poetics of the everyday: Creative repetition in modern American verse (3rd ed.).

   Columbia University Press.

 

Two authors:

 Zamora, L. P. & Faris, W. B. (1995).  Magical realism: Theory, history, community. Duke University Press.

 

 

Book with one editor:

 Eldridge, R. (Ed.). (2009).  The Oxford handbook of philosophy and literature. Oxford University Press.

 

 

Book with two or more editors:

Newburger, H. , Birch, E. L., & Wachter, S. M.  (Eds.). (2011).  Neighborhood and life chances: How

   place matters in modern America. University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

 

 

Citing Reference Books

The APA Style website has the information below for citing edited books. It comes from this page. When you are doing your reference book citation assignment, most likely you will be following one of these examples where you have a chapter with its own author in a larger book that has editors.

 

Chapter in an edited book

 

Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (34th ed., pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016

 

Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.

 

Thestrup, K. (2010). To transform, to communicate, to play—The experimenting community in action. In E. Hygum & P. M. Pedersen (Eds.), Early childhood education: Values and practices in Denmark (6th ed.). Hans Reitzels Forlag. https://earlychildhoodeducation.digi.hansreitzel.dk/?id=192

 

  • Parenthetical citations: (Aron et al., 2019; Dillard, 2020; Thestrup, 2010)
  • Narrative citations: Aron et al. (2019), Dillard (2020), and Thestrup (2010)
  • Use this format for both print and ebook edited book chapters, including edited book chapters from academic research databases.
  • If the chapter has a DOI, include the chapter DOI in the reference after the publisher name.
  • Do not include the publisher location.
  • If a chapter without a DOI has a stable URL that will resolve for readers, include the URL of the chapter in the reference (as in the Thestrup example, which is from the iBog database). Do not include the name of the database in the reference.
  • If the chapter is from an academic research database and has no DOI or stable URL, end the book reference after the publisher name. Do not include the name of the database in the reference. The reference in this case is the same as for a print book chapter.
  • Include any edition information in the same parentheses as the page range of the chapter, separated with a comma.
  • For ebook chapters without pagination, omit the page range from the reference (as in the Thestrup example).