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APA Citations: Books

In Text Citations

Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote and the ideas you reference.

See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue Owl, and their page specifically about citing author/author's names in text.

Basic APA Book Citation Example

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. (Year). Title of book: Capitalize only first letter. Publisher.

 

Note: Some of the citations below may also include an article or chapter title and editors.

Example: print book with one author

   
   Browne, D. (2008)Goodbye 20th century: A biography of

             Sonic Youth. Da Capo Press.

 

Example: multiple authors

 Crampton, L., & Rees, D.(2003). Rock & roll year by yearDK Pub. in association with the Rock and Roll

         Hall of Fame and Museum.

Example: Article or chapter in an edited book

​Waksman, S. (2006). Black sound, black body: Jimi Hendrix, the

             electric guitar and the meaning of blackness. In A.

             Bennett, B. Shank, & J. Toynbee (Eds.), The popular

             music studies reader (pp. 64-70). Routledge.

Example: Electronic Version of a Print Book, eBook

​Prager, M. (2008). Reason 4 power! The comprehensive guide

         [Safari Books Online version]. Retrieved from http://proquest.

         safaribooksonline.com.proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/30000LTI00203