How to build citations

The official reference manual is Publication manual of the American Psychological Association , now at the 7th edition.  You can find it, print edition, in our library.

You can also see the online Mendeley guide or the APA style blog for tips and examples.

This style is mainly used in Psychology.

In APA style, footnotes are not used; instead, references are included directly in the text within parentheses.

In these references there must be the author's surname (or surnames, if the authors are more than one), the publication year and maybe the citation page. If there are more works of the same author and the same year, letters are used to distinguish them:  E. g. : Koriat 2008a / Koriat 2008b

At the end of the paper there is a final bibliography, organized alphabetically by author .

In the final bibliography, references are so built:

Book: 

Author's surname, author's name initials. Publication year (in parentheses). Title, publisher

Book chapter:

Author's surname, author's name initials. Publication year (in parentheses).  Chapter title. Author's name initials, author's surname. Book title in italics.  (edition if not the first and chapter pages in parentheses). Publication place: publisher

Journal article:
Author's surname, author's name initials. Publication year (in parentheses). Article title. Journal title in italics. Volume number (issue number in parentheses), article pages. Link or DOI.

Example 1, journal article

In text:

In the final bibliography: 



Example 2, book chapter

In text:

In the final bibliography:



Example 3, book

In text: 



In the final bibliography: