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Dear apa style experts i want to cite a chapter from theoretical basis for nursing 4th edition which is an authored textbook however the author of this chapter is not one of the authors listed on the front cover.
Apa style blog ebook. During the past 10 years we ve enjoyed talking about writing research grammar and style. To support academic libraries and their many patrons during the covid 19 pandemic we are providing temporary free access to the publication manual of the american psychological association 6th and 7th editions the concise guide to apa style and more than 160 other books published by apa books through vitalsource and redshelf. The example above is not only appropriate for e books but is the basic structure used for any authored print book that has a doi.
Italicize the title but not the bracketed material and source url or doi. All citations should be double spaced and have a hanging indent in a reference list. Use the following template to cite a e book or pdf using the apa citation style.
Author last name first initial middle initial. A reader who picks up the same edition of a book you used can quickly turn to the exact source of your quotation. This resource revised according to the 6 th edition second printing of the apa manual offers examples for the general format of apa research papers in text citations endnotes footnotes and the reference page.
170 171 to meet the overall goal of documentation which is to fully credit your sources and allow your reader to retrieve them. Below is a link to an apa sample paper that contains instructions about how to format a hanging indent in a paper. Reference list entries the reference list entry for a whole e book should include elements of author date title with e reader book type in square brackets if applicable.
We launched the sixth edition apa style blog in 2009 on the very day that the sixth edition of the publication manual was published. Apa style requires a page citation or paragraph number for directly quoted material see the apa publication manual 6th ed pp. For help with other source types like books pdfs or websites check out our other guides to have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for you try our free citation generator.
To support academic libraries and their many patrons during the covid 19 pandemic we are providing temporary free access to the publication manual of the american psychological association 6th and 7th editions the concise guide to apa style and more than 160 other books published by apa books through vitalsource and redshelf. This post shows how to cite any e book in apa style. A hanging indent means that each subsequent line after the first line of your citation should be indented by 0 5 inches.