Among the Details to Notice in this Reference System
- Where two or more works by the same author are included in References, they are ordered by date of publication.
- APA style prefers author initials rather than first names.
- Only the first words of titles and subtitles are capitalized, except for proper nouns.
- The date appears in parentheses near at the beginning of each entry in References.
- The in-text citation comes directly after the name of the author or after the end quotation mark. Often, these citations fall just before the period or comma in the surrounding sentence.
- If an in-text citation occurs within text in parentheses, commas are used to set off elements of the reference.
- When a work has appeared in an edited collection, information on the editors must be included in the reference.
- Authors' first and last names are reversed; note the use of the ampersand (&) between author names.
- Translators should be included under References.
- Publisher as well as city of publication should be given.
- Months and publisher names are not abbreviated; the day of the month follows the name of the month.
- Online references include the date of publication or of last revision in parentheses immediately after the author's name, and the date of access, which appears within a phrase near the end of the entry, e.g., "Retrieved July 6, 2006, from http://www.broadviewpress.com": note that, if a URL ends a reference entry, there is no period at the end of the entry.
Material from The Broadview Guide to Writing.
