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APA Citation Style 7th Edition

Resources for learning how to cite your sources using APA Style 7th Edition guidelines.

Interviews, E-mail, Intranet, Religious Works, & Secondary Sources

Personal Interviews

  • Personal interviews are not included in the reference list because they do not provide recoverable data. Cite them in text only.
  • Give the initial(s) and surname, and provide as exact a date as possible using the following formats:

Parenthetical citations: (Y. Martel, personal communication, April 15, 2005)

Narrative citations: E. M. Paradis (personal communication, August, 2019)

 

Published Interviews

If you read, watch, or listen to an interview conducted by someone else, you should pick the reference format for the source (magazine, newspaper, recorded radio broadcast, podcast episode, or TV show). 

Since the name of the person interviewed may not necessarily appear in the citation, you may integrate the person's name into the narrative of your paper.

Narrative Description:

Dr. Robert Watson stated, "People think we know all there is to know about history. We don't know the half of it" (Laird et al., 2019-Present).

 

Reference List

Laird, N., Oron, D., & Ryan, N. (Executive Producers). (2019-Present). Secret Nazi ruins [TV series]. Go Button Media.

 

In-Text Citation

Parenthetical citations: (Laird et al., 2019-Present)

Narrative citations: Laird et al. (2019-Present)

In-Text Citations

  • Emails are not included in the reference list because they do not provide recoverable data. Cite them in text only.
  • Give the initial(s) and surname, and provide as exact a date as possible using the following formats:
Parenthetical citations: (W. Gates, personal communication, March 17, 2012)
 
Narrative citations: W. Gates (personal communication, March 17, 2012)

Use the following format to cite a report on a company intranet when writing an internal company report. Because this company intranet requires users to log in, provide the homepage URL of the intranet rather than the full URL of the work.

 

Reference List

American Psychological Association. (2019). Policies & procedures manualhttps://apa750.sharepoint.com

 

In-Text Citation

Parenthetical Citation: 

  • Paraphrase: (American Psychological Association, 2019)
  • Quotation: (American Psychological Association, 2019, p. 10)

Narrative Citation: American Psychological Association (2019)

 

NOTE: If the work is for professional publication or intended for a wider audience who will not have access to these sources, cite the source as a personal communication. Personal communications include emails, text messages, online chats or direct messages, personal interviews, telephone conversations, live speeches, unrecorded classroom lectures, memos, letters, messages from nonarchived discussion groups or online bulletin boards, and so on. More info about personal communications can be found using the link below.

Template

 

Author

 

Date

 

Title

Source
Publisher Information DOI or URL

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B.

Name of Group.

Editor, E. E. (Ed.).

Editor, E. E., & Editor, F. F. (Eds.).

(2020).

Title of book.

Title of book (2nd ed., Vol. 4).

Title of book [Audiobook].

Title of book (E. E. Editor, Ed.).

Title of book (T. Translator, Trans.; N. Narrator, Narr.).

Publisher Name.

First Publisher Name; Second Publisher Name.

https://doi.org/xxxx

https://xxxxx

  • Religious texts, classical works, and classical literature are all cited as books.
  • Religious works are usually treated as having no author. However, an annotated version would be treated as having an editor.
  • For translated works, include the translator's name in the reference.
  • Classical works and and works of classical literature are treated as republished works.

  • For ancient Greek or Roman works, include the copyright date of the version used in the date element and the date of the original (ancient) publication in parentheses at the end of the entry. When the date of original publication is approximate, use the abbreviation "ca." (which stands for "circa").

Reference List

Aristotle. (1994). Poetics (S. H. Butcher, Trans.). The Internet Classics Archive. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics. html (Original work published ca. 350 B.C.E.)

King James Bible. (2017). King James Bible Online. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/ (Original work published 1769)

The Qur'an (M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, Trans.). (2004). Oxford University Press.

 

In-Text Citations

Parenthetical citations: (Aristotle, ca. 350 B.C.E./1994); (King James Bible, 1769/2017); (The Qu'ran, 2004)

Narrative citations: Aristotle (ca. 350 B.C.E/1994); King James Bible (1769/2017); The Qu'ran (2004)

  • Cite a chapter or verse in the text using canonical numbering rather than page numbers:
    • The person vowed to “set me as a seal upon thine heart” (King James Bible, 1769/2017, Song of Solomon 8:6).

Sometimes an author writes about research that someone else has done, but you are unable to track down the original research report.

In this case, because you did not read the original report, you will include only the source you did consult in your References.

The words “as cited in” in the parenthetical reference indicate you have not read the original research.

General Format

  • In-text citation, paraphrase: (Author's surname, Year qtd. as cited in Author Surname [of the source you read], Year)
     
  • In-text citation, quotation: (Author's surname, Year qtd. as cited in Author Surname [of the source you read], Year, page number)
     
  • Reference list citation: Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial [of the source you read]. (Year). Book title: Subtitle. Publisher.

Examples

  • In-text citation, paraphrase: Fong’s 1987 study (as cited in Bertram, 1996) found that older students’ memory can be as good as that of young people, but this depends on how memory is tested.
     
  • Reference list citation: Do not include Fong (1987) in your References; do include Bertram (1996).
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