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APA Style Guide: Book/E-book

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Book/E-Book

Print Book

Author Lastname, First initials. (Year). Book Title. Publication City: Publisher.

Hosokawa, F. (2010). Building trust: Doing research to understand ethnic communities. Lanham: Lexington Books.

 

Electronic Version of Print Book

 

Without DOI (use DOI when available)

Author Lastname, First Initials. (Year). Title. Retrieved From URL

Scullard, H. H. (2012). A history of the Roman world: 753 to 146 BC. Retrieved from http://orbis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1024580

**Note: if you download and read an e-book on an electronic reader (like a Kindle or iPad), as opposed to reading it on your computer through the library’s website, you must add an element to your reference entry noting the e-reader version. This element should go right after the title in brackets. See below:

Scullard, H. H. (2012). A history of the Roman world: 753 to 146 BC [Kindle version]. Retrieved from http://orbis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1024580

 

Book Chapter, In Print

Author Lastname, First Initials. (Year). Chapter Name. In Editor (Ed.), Book Title  (pp. Page range). City of Publication: Publisher.

Salas, E., DeRouin, R. E., & Gade, P. A. (2007). The military's contribution to our science and practice: People, places, and findings. In L. Koppes (Ed.), Historical perspectives in industrial and organizational psychology (pp.169-193). Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.

 

Book Chapter, Electronic

Author Lastname, First Initials. (Year). Chapter Name. In Editor (Ed.), Book Title  (pp. Page range). Retrieved from URL

Bilotta, E., & Evans, G. W. (2012) Environmental Stress. In L. Steg, A. van den Berg, J. de Groot (Eds.), Environmental psychology: An introduction (pp. 28-35). Retrieved from https://ezproxy.wou.edu/login:2663/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=888149