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When using APA Professional, note that the differences between this and "student" papers are largely formatting, not content. References and in-text citations remain the same. See these resources from The American Psychological Association to write your paper in APA Style.

• Include the author's last name with the year, e.g., (Coltrane, 1998).
• Include the page number if quoting directly, e.g., (Coltrane, 1998, pp. 33-34).
• If there is no author, use a shortened title, e.g., ("Understanding Sensory Memory," 2018).
• If there are multiple works by the same author and same date, use lowercase letter assigned to the year in the reference list, e.g., (Lazarus, 2000b).
• When a book has two authors, use both names and the year in every citation, e.g., (Day & Neubauer, 2001).
• For a work with three or more authors, include the name of only the first author plus "et al." in every citation. e.g., (Martin et al., 2020).

Full-text journal article from a database:

Owens, H., Christian, B., & Polivka, B. (2017). Sleep behaviors in traditional-age college students: A state of the science review with implications for practice. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 29(11), 695-703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2327-6924.12520

• Include a digital object identifier (DOI) when available. Do not use a period after the DOI.
• For articles without DOIs from most academic research databases, the reference should be the same as the reference for a print version of the work.

Ebook:

Burgess, R. (2019). Rethinking global health: Frameworks of power. Routledge.

• Include a digital object identifier (DOI) when available. Do not use a period after the DOI.
• If a DOI is not available, the citation is the same as a print book.

Website:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021, November 18). People at high risk of developing flu-related complications. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/index.htm

• Include a retrieval date if the information on the page is likely to change or be updated, but if it is a static web page, do not include a retrieval date.

If at all possible, find and cite the original source directly. If you can't find the original source, cite the source that you found in your References list, and use "as cited in" in your in-text citation to that source. For example, if you read a work by Lyon et al. (2014) in which Rabbit (1982) was cited, and you were unable to read Rabbitt's work yourself, your in-text citation would look like this, and you would only include Lyon's source in your References list:

(Rabbitt, 1982, as cited in Lyon et al., 2014).

For more details, see Section 8.6 of the 7th edition of the APA Manual, or consult the APA's online guide: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/secondary-sources 

Provide surnames and initials for up to and including 20 authors. When there are two to 20 authors, use an ampersand before the final author's name. When there are 21 or more authors, include the first 19 author's names, insert an ellipsis (but no ampersand), and then add the final author's name.

In-text citations:

• Parenthetical citation: (Vos et al., 2020)
• Narrative citation: Vos et al. (2020)

Reference list:

Vos, T., Lim, S. S., Abbafati, C., Abbas, K. M., Abbasi, M., Abbasifard, M., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abbastabar, H., Abd-Allah, F., Abdelalim, A., Abdollahi, M., Abdollahpour, I., Abolhassani, H., Aboyans, V., Abrams, E. M., Abreu, L. G., Abrigo, M. R. M., Abu-Raddad, L. J., Abushouk, A. I., … Murray, C. J. L. (2020). Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, 396(10258), 1204–1222. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30925-9

Book:

Coltrane, S. (1998). Gender and families. Pine Forge Press.

Book with two authors:

Goulding, M., & Mahar, D. (1996). Floods of fortune: Ecology and economy along the Amazon. Columbia University Press.

Journal article:

Egan, S. E., & Perry, D. G. (2001). Gender identity: A multidimensional analysis with implications for psychosocial adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 37(4), 451-464. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.37.4.4514

Article in a reference work:

Diabetes. (2000). In The Columbia encyclopedia (6th ed., p. 2533). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.