Sample APA Reference Page

American Psychological Association. (1994; APA).  Publication manual of the

	American Psychological Association (4th ed.).  Washington, DC: Author.

[Book with a corporate author who is also the publisher. Note only the first word and the proper noun are capitalized in the book title.]

Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Coppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White, L. A. (1993).

	Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor performances.  Journal

	of Applied Psychology, 78, 443-449.  Retrieved October 23, 2000, from Psych-

	ARTICLES database.

[This is an electronic copy of a journal article that exists in print but was retrieved from a database. Note the volume # as well as the title is italicized. Use the hard copy page #'s.]

Chou, L. (1993). Choosing pasts and imagining futures. Retrieved

        August 24, 2000, from Columbia University, Institute for

        Learning Technologies Web Site:

	http://www.ilt.Columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html.

[This is an authored article from a website.]

Holt, R. R. (1959). Researchmanship on how to write a dissertation in clinical

	psychology without really trying.  American Psychologist, 14, 151-162.

[Note the title of the journal article is not in quotes & only the first word is capitalized. The hard copy of this journal was used, so no database is referred to.]

May, R. B., Masson, M. E., & Hunter, M. A. (1990).  Application of statistics

	in behavioral research.  New York:  Harper & Row.

[This is a simple book with three authors. It is the most basic of entries.]

Public Campaign. (n.d.).  Death penalty:  Cruel and unusual punishment.

	Retrieved October 5, 2000, from http://www.publiccampaign.org.

[This article had no author, no date of publication---n.d. refers to 'no date.' Also, use the URL that links the entry to the home page if there are multiple URLs within that web site.]

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