UMGC Library: APA 7th Edition Citation Examples: Books (2024)

Format:

Author last name, first initial. (Year).Booktitle.Publisher.DOI or URL (if there is one)

Elements:

• Author:List the last name, followed by the first initial (and second initial).SeeAuthorsfor more information.
• Year:List the publication yearbetween parentheses, followed by a period.
• Book title:In italics. Capitalize the first word of the title, subtitle, and proper nouns, followed by a period.
• Publisher:List the name of the publisher when available. If the publisher is also the author, do not list the publisher's name a second time in the reference.
• DOIor URL:Use DOI when available. If no DOI and from the free web, use a URL. If no DOI and from a database, do not use a DOI or URL.

The name of the format, platform or device (e.g., Kindle) is not included in the reference.

See specific examples below.

Burgess, R. (2019). Rethinking global health: Frameworks of power. Routledge.

Veletsianos, G. (2020). Learning online: The student experience. Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Publisher names: "Co.", "Inc." and related abbreviations should not be included in citations (for example, "Ivan R. Dee, Inc." should be given as "Ivan R. Dee".)

Chaffe-Stengel, P., & Stengel, D. (2012). Working with sample data: Exploration and inference. Business Expert Press. https://doi.org/10.4128/9781606492147

What is a DOI?
Some library databases, such as Academic Search Ultimate and APA PsycInfo, list a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for individual ebooks. A DOI is a unique identifying number for an ebook. In the database record for an ebook, you will see an element that looks like this, which you should include at the end of your APA reference, preceded by "https://doi.org/":

This link will allow a reader to link to doi.org for more information about the ebook.

Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. Little, Brown and Company. https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell-ebook/dp/B001ANYDAO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

It is not necessary to note that it is an ebook if the content is the same as the print version.

Quina, K., & Kanarian, M. A. (1988). Continuing education. In P. Bronstein & K. Quina (Eds.), Teaching a psychology of people: Resources for gender and sociocultural awareness (pp. 200-208). American Psychological Association.

When using just a chapter from a book the same rules apply regarding DOI or no DOI as listed above, depending on where the book was retrieved.

Note that this template should be used only for books that have different authors for each chapter. If the author(s) is/are the same for an entire book, create a reference list entry for the entire book, even if you only quotedfrom one chapter of the book. (Your in-text citation will direct your reader to the specific part of the book that you quoted.)

Miller, J., & Smith, T. (Eds.). (1996). Cape Cod stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard. Chronicle Books.

For a single editor, use "(Ed.)".

Green, C. M. (1962-1963). Washington (Vols. 1-2). Princeton University Press.

If volumes in a work or set are published in different years, give the range of years separated by a dash as above.

Eliot, T. S. (2001). Tradition and the individual talent. In V. B. Leitch (Ed.), The Norton anthology of theory and criticism (pp. 1092-1097). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1920)

Note that the page numbers of an article or chapter are preceded by "pp." in the reference list entry(for example, "pp. 1092-1097"). In cases where an article/chapter occupies a single page, the page number is preceded by "p." (e.g, "p. 4").

Include the book's DOI after the publisher's name if a DOI is available.

If an article has been reprinted from a source that was published earlier, give the original date of publication in the "original work" element of the citation, as shown above. When using this element, do not put a period after it.

Note that this template should be used only for books that have different authors for each chapter. If the author(s) is/are the same for an entire book, create a reference list entry for the entire book, even if you only quotedfrom one chapter of the book. (Your in-text citation will direct your reader to the specific part of the book that you quoted.)