APA Style Citation Guide

See the Cabrillo Library APA Style Guide Links to an external site. for example APA citations for articles, web pages, and books.

References

In APA style, the list of detailed information about your sources at the end of your paper is called “References." Generally, your professors will call sources “references” instead of "citations." The core elements of an APA-style citation are below.

APA Core Elements

  • Author.
  • (Date).
  • Title.
  • Source.

Examples

Print Book or eBook

Schreiber, B. (2019). Music is power: Popular songs, social justice, and the will to change. Rutgers University Press.

Web Page

Schaeffer, K. (2021, October 1). What we know about online learning and the homework gap amid the pandemic. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/01/what-we-know-about-online-learning-and-the-homework-gap-amid-the-pandemic/

Academic Journal Article

Grauer, J., Löwen, H., & Liebchen, B. (2020). Strategic spatiotemporal vaccine distribution increases the survival rate in an infectious disease like Covid-19. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41598-020-78447-3

More APA Resources

For more examples of APA style citations, visit Excelsior OWL Links to an external site..

Adapted from APA  STYLE Links to an external site. by Walter D. Butler; Aloha Sargent; and Kelsey Smith is licensed under CC BY 4.0