APA Style Guide: Book/E-book

Print Book

Author Lastname, First initials. (Year). Book Title. Publication City: Publisher.

Hosokawa, F. (2010). Building trust: Doing research to understand ethnic communities. Lanham: Lexington Books.

If no date use the abbreviation - n.d. for no date in parenthesis where the date would be (n.d.)

If no publisher use the abbreviation - n.p. for no publisher in parenthesis where the publisher would be (n.p.)

Electronic Version of Print Book

Without DOI (use DOI when available)

Author Lastname, First Initials. (Year). Title. Retrieved From URL

Scullard, H. H. (2012). A history of the Roman world: 753 to 146 BC. Retrieved from http://orbis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1024580

**Note: if you download and read an e-book on an electronic reader (like a Kindle or iPad), as opposed to reading it on your computer through the library’s website, you must add an element to your reference entry noting the e-reader version. This element should go right after the title in brackets. See below:

Scullard, H. H. (2012). A history of the Roman world: 753 to 146 BC [Kindle version]. Retrieved from http://orbis.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1024580

Book Chapter, In Print

Author Lastname, First Initials. (Year). Chapter Name. In Editor (Ed.), Book Title  (pp. Page range). City of Publication: Publisher.

Salas, E., DeRouin, R. E., & Gade, P. A. (2007). The military's contribution to our science and practice: People, places, and findings. In L. Koppes (Ed.), Historical perspectives in industrial and organizational psychology (pp.169-193). Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Book Chapter, Electronic

Author Lastname, First Initials. (Year). Chapter Name. In Editor (Ed.), Book Title  (pp. Page range). Retrieved from URL

Bilotta, E., & Evans, G. W. (2012) Environmental Stress. In L. Steg, A. van den Berg, J. de Groot (Eds.), Environmental psychology: An introduction (pp. 28-35). Retrieved from https://ezproxy.wou.edu/login:2663/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=888149