Occupational Therapy: Cite the Evidence

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. Author's Middle Initial. (Year, Month/Date/Season). Title of article. Title of Journal/Magazine,                          Volume(Issue), Page(s). https://doi:xx.xxxxxxx

(Note: Not every article will have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number in the reference citation. The DOI is an alphanumeric string that is assigned to some electronic articles, and if it appears in the citation information for an article you are citing from an electronic source, it should be included. Reference citations without a DOI will look the same as the example citation above, but without "doi:xx.xxxxxxxx". If no DOI is assigned to an article, but you retrieved the article online, be sure to include the URL for the page where you found the article, using the following format: Retrieved from http://www.websiteaddress.com)

Sutherland, M. B. (2000, May). Problems of diversity in policy and practice: Celtic languages in the United Kingdom. Comparative 

          Education, 36(2),199-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050060050045363

List all authors up to 20, with the ampersand (&) used between the last two authors. If 21 authors are listed, list up to 19, ellipsis and no ampersand before the last author. 

Kennedy, L. F., & Yavuz, M. S. (2019). Metal and musicology. Metal Music Studies, 5(3), 293-296. https://doi.org/10.1386/mms.5.3.293_2

Book basic structure

Author's Last Name, Author's first initial. Author's Middle initial. (year). Title of the book in sentence capitalization. Publisher. DOI if available in https://doi.html-link

Note: The seventh edition of APA does not include locations of publication in the citation.

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). New York: Routledge.

Electronic, or online book

Prager, M. (2008). Reason 4 power! The comprehensive guide 
      [Safari Books Online version]. Retrieved from http://0-
      proquest.safaribooksonline.com.maurice.bgsu.edu/30000LTI00203

The general rule for citing Web pages in APA format is to include as much information as possible. If there is no date available, use (n.d.), which stands for "no date". If the website URL you are citing runs onto the next line, be sure to break the address after a "/" (http:// is an exception). More information about electronic sources is available on the Purdue OWL site.

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. Author's Middle Initial. (Year, Month Day of publication).

          Title of report/document. http://webpage address

Doctorow, C. (2009, August 13). Photos of science fiction writers' nests. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/13/photos-of-science-fi.html

When there is no author for a Web page, the title of the page takes the place of the author and is listed first. If there is no date available, use (n.d.), which stands for "no date". If the website URL you are citing runs onto the next line, be sure to break the address after a "/" (https:// is an exception).

Title of document. (Year, Month Day of publication). https://webpageaddress

Tenn. couple accused of assault using Cheetos. (2009, June 27). https://msnbc.msn.com/id31580100/ns/us_news-weird_news/

For an overview of the various ways to cite information in text in APA style, see the Purdue OWL, which provides an overview of the basic in text citation formats.