Subject and Course Guides: APA Guide: 7th Edition : Books

Books

See the below for how to write a reference. There is the format (including the periods, abbreviations, and capitalization) and an example for each type of item to be in the reference list.

General Format

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book: Use capital letter for the first word for subtitle. Publisher. DOI or URL (if there is one)

Categories		Solutions
A print book with one author	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book: Use capital letter for the first word for subtitle. Publisher. DOI
A print book with one author	Example	Johnson, P. (2003). Art: A new history. HarperCollins. https://doi.org/10.1037.0000136-000
A print book with more than one author	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial., & Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book: Use capital letter for the first word for subtitle. Publisher. DOI
A print book with more than one author	Example	Kamruzzaman, J., Begg, R., & Sarker, R. A. (2006). Artificial neural networks in finance and manufacturing. Idea Group Pub. https://doi.org/10.1037.0000136-000
Electronic Book	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book. URL
Electronic Book	Example	Lenarz, T., & Wriggers, P. (2014). Biomedical Technology. http://www.eblib.com
Volume book	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of book (Volume Number). Publisher.
Volume book	Example	De Certeau, M., Giard, L., Mayol, P., & Tomasik, T. J. (1998). The practice of everyday life: Living and cooking (Vol. 2). University of Minnesota Press.
Book chapter from an edited book	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of chapter. In First Editor's First Initial. Middle initial. Last Name, Second Editor's First Initial. Middle initial. Last Name (Eds.), Title of book (page number/s). Publisher.
Book chapter from an edited book	Example	Elkana, Y. (1975). The problem of knowledge. In P.A. Weiss (Ed.), Knowledge in search of understanding: The Frensham papers (pp.91-104). Futura Publishing Company, Inc..
Dictionary entry or encyclopedia article	Format	Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (Publication Year). Title of entry. In Editor First Initial. Second Initial. Last Name (Ed.), Title of reference work (Vol. #, pp. #). Publisher.
Dictionary entry or encyclopedia article	Example	Musket. (2003). In The new encyclopedia britannica (Vol. 8, pp. 449). Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc..
Entire edited book	Format	Editor's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial (Ed.). (Publication Year). Title of book. Publication.
Entire edited book	Example	Oates, J. C. (Ed.). (1992). The Oxford book of American short stories. Oxford University Press.
Translated book	Format	Author Last Name, First Initial. (Publication Year). Title of the book. (First Initial, Last name of the translator, Trans.). Publisher. (Provide original work published year if it is available in the parentheses)
Translated book	Example	Zarraluki, P. (2014). The history of silence. (N. Caistor & L.García, Trans.). Hispabooks. (Original work published 1999)

See page 321-329 of the manual for more information.

Tips

When the author and publisher are the same, use Author as publisher.
When you list the pages of the chapter in parentheses, use pp. before the numbers.
If a book or book chapter has a DOI, provide the DOI information at the end.
Example:
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Cautionary statement for forensic use of DSM-5. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). doi:10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.744053