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Referencing with APA 7th Style – Brief Guide AUT Library

For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14) For material without page numbers, give
the paragraph number or a time stamp. (Field, 2005, para. 1)
Reference Types In-text Reference List
. Book & ebook with DOI (Ewert, 2014) Ewert, E.W., Mitten, D.S., & Overholt, J.R. (2014). Natural environments and human health.
or CAB International. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781845939199.0000
according to Ewert (2001)
Include the DOI using the format https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxx
Book & ebook without DOI, (Foxall, 2018) Foxall, G. R. (2018). Context and cognition in consumer psychology: How perception and
or emotion guide action. Routledge.
ebook without DOI from According to Foxall (2018)
Use the copyright date. For more than one publisher, list all publishers in the order that they
research databases
appear, separated by a semicolon. Do not include the database name or URL.
Article with DOI from (Washington, 2014) Washington, E. T. (2014). An overview of cyberbullying in higher education. Adult Learning, 26(1),
research databases or 21–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1045159514558412
Washington (2014) stated that
For DOI, use the format https://doi.org/xxxxxx
Article without DOI: (Moody, 2019) Moody, M. S. (2019). If instructional coaching works, why isn't it working? Educational
From research databases, or Leadership, 77(3), 30–35.
or Moody (2019)
Do not include the database name or URL for articles from most academic research databases.
From a Print journal
Open access journal article (Dayton, 2019) Dayton, K. J. (2019). Tangled arms: Modernizing and unifying the arm-of-the-state doctrine.
without DOI or The University of Chicago Law Review, 86(6), 1497–1737. https://bit.ly/2SkWwcy
Dayton (2019)
Include the URL for articles without a DOI and with a nondatabase URL, e.g. free online journal
Webpage, no date, (Athletics New Zealand, n.d.) articles.
Athletics New Zealand. (n.d.). Form a new club. http://www.athletics.org.nz/Clubs/Starting-a-New-
or
Club When the author and site name are the same, omit the site name.
Athletics New Zealand (n.d.)
Webpage, with a date (Monaghan, 2019) Monaghan, E. (2019, December 10). 5 reasons modern slavery at sea is still possible in 2019.
or Greenpeace. https://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/story/5-reasons-modern-slavery-at-sea-is-
Monaghan (2019) still- possible-in-2019/
If the page you are citing includes a last updated date, use that date. Include the name of the
website in the reference.
YouTube video or other (MSNBC, 2020) MSNBC. (2020, January 7). Julián Castro endorses Elizabeth Warren [Video].
streaming video or YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk2Tzc8H5po
MSNBC (2020)
Conference paper … act of curation works with unique set of factors (Mason & Mason, I. & Missingham, R. (2019, October 21–25). Research libraries, data curation, and
Missingham, 2019) workflows [Paper presentation]. eResearch Australasia Conference, Brisbane, QLD,
or Australia. https://bit.ly/2RGcFdn
… according to Mason and Missingham (2019)
After the title, include a label in square brackets that matches the description of the presentation
e.g. [paper presentation]. Create a short URL using https://bitly.com
 Author In- text Reference List
One author … (Pilger, 2006) Pilger, J. (2006). Freedom next time. Bantam.
or
Pilger (2006) stated that …
Two authors (Shaw & Eichbaun, 2008) Shaw, R., & Eichbaum, C. (2008). Public policy in New Zealand: Institutions, processes and
or outcomes. Pearson Education.
Shaw and Eichburn (2008) …
List both authors.

3 or more authors, up to 20 (Watson et al., 2019) Watson, S., Gunasekaran, G., Gedye, M., van Roy, Y., Ross, M.,
authors or Longdin, L., & Brown, L. (2003). Law of business organisations (4th ed.). Palatine Press.
Watson et al. (2019) stated that …
List all authors up to and including 20. The last author’s surname is preceded by an ampersand (&).
List the first author followed by et al.
21 or more authors (Loannidis et al., 2016) Loannidis, N. M., Rothstein, J. H., Pejaver, V., Middha, S., McDonnell, S., Baheti, S. Musolf,
or A., Li, Q., Holzinger, E., Karyadi, D., Cannon-Albright, L., Teerlink, C, C.,
Loannidis et al. (2016) stated …. Stanford, J. L., Isaacs, W. B., Xu, J.,Cooney, K., Lange, E., Schleutker, J., Carpten, J. D.,
… Weiver, S. (2016). Revel: An ensemble method for predicting the pathogenicity of
List the first author followed by et al.
rare missense variants. American Journal of Human Genetics, 99(4) 877–85.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.08.016

List the first 19 authors, then insert three dots (ellipsis …) and add the last author’s name.
Author … showed in the study (Seidenberg & McClelland, 1990, as Coltheart, M., Curtis, B. Atkins, P., & Haller, M. (1993). Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and
in secondary citations cited in Coltheart et al., 1993) parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review, 100, 589–608.
or
Enter the reference list for the source you have read (secondary source).
Seidenberg & McClelland (1990, as cited in Coltheart et al.,
1993) showed …
Include the original work and the date, and the citation for
the source where you found the information.

Author of a chapter in an … (Easton, 2008) Easton, B. (2008). Does poverty affect health? In K. Dew & A. Matheson (Eds.), Understanding health
edited book or inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand (pp. 97–106). Otago University Press.
according to Easton (2008) Include a DOI after the publisher, if available.
Article from a Website ("All 33 Chile Miners," 2010) All 33 Chile miners freed in flawless rescue. (2010, October 13). MSNBC.
No Author. (Cite in text the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39625809/ns/world_news-americas/
and the year. Use double quotation marks around the title or abbreviated
title Note: Use the full title of the web page if it is short for the parenthetical
citation

Updated 10-7-2023 HSS