APA Style

• Arrange the items alphabetically by author or by title if there is no author.
• Use only the initials of the author’s first (and middle) name.
• Write out the last name and initials for the first six authors of a particular work. If there are seven authors, list the first six and use et al.
• Indent the second and following lines 5 spaces.
• Capitalize only the first word of a title or subtitle that are part of a title.
• Use an ampersand (&) when listing multiple authors of a single work.
• Websites: if the date the page was created is not given, use (n.d.).

This worksheet contains basic APA citation style examples. For further information, go to the OWL at Perdue website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

BOOKS
Author:________________________________________________
Year of Publication:______________________________________
Title:__________________________________________________
Location:_______________________________________________
Publisher: ______________________________________________

How to put it together for your works cited list:
Author’s Last Name, Authors first initial. (Published date in parenthesis). Title of work in Italics. Location: Publisher.

ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK OR AN ENTRY IN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
If the article is signed, include the author's name; if unsigned, begin with the title of the article.
Author: __________________________________________________
Year of Publication: ________________________________________
Title of the article: _________________________________________
Title of the work:___________________________________________
Volume number, page number:________________________________
Location:__________________________________________________
Publisher:_________________________________________________

How to put it together for your works cited list:
Author’s Last Name, Authors first initial. (Published date in parenthesis). Title of the article. Title of work in Italics (Volume number, and page number(s) in parentheses). Location: Publisher.

BASIC FORM FOR ARTICLES IN A JOURNAL
Author: ________________________________________________
Year of Publication: ______________________________________
Title of the article: _______________________________________
Title of the periodical:_____________________________________
Volume number:__________________________________________
Issue number: ___________________________________________
Pages:__________________________________________________

How to put it together for your works cited list:
Author’s Last Name, Authors first initial. (Published date in parenthesis). Title of the article. Title of work in Italics, Volume number in italics (issue number in parentheses) and page numbers.

ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE
Provide the same information as you would for a printed journal article and add a retrieval statement that gives the date of retrieval and the name of the database.
Author: __________________________________________________
Year of publication:_________________________________________
Title of the article: _________________________________________
Title of the periodical: ______________________________________
Volume number:____________________________________________
Issue number: _____________________________________________
Retrieval Date:_____________________________________________
Database:_________________________________________________

How to put it together for your works cited list:
Author’s Last Name, Authors first initial. (Published date in parenthesis). Title of the article. Title of work in Italics, Volume number in italics (issue number in parentheses). Retrieved month, day, year, from source.

WEBSITE
List as much information as possible.
Author:________________________________________________
Published Date:_________________________________________
Title of the document:____________________________________
Retrieval Date:__________________________________________
Webpage address:_______________________________________

How to put it together for your works cited list:
Author’s Last Name, Authors first initial. (Published date in parenthesis). Title of the article. Retrieved month, day, year, from http://web address.