Rule 7: When the author is an organization or government agency, mention the

RULES IN IN-TEXT CITATION APA 6TH EDITION FORMAT (American name of the organization and the name of the organization in brackets, and the
Psychological Association) year of publication.

Rule 1: When citing an article with a single author, Examples: According to the World Health Organization [WHO] (2012), …

Author’s surname (year of publication), … WHO (2010) emphasized that …

(Author’s surname, year of publication). Rule 8: For website sources, if the author is known, write the surname of the
Examples: According to Stark (2018), … author and the date. If the date is not known, use n.d
(Stark, 2018).
Examples: According to Fury (2018),
Rule 2: When citing an article with two authors, (Fury, 2018).
According to Fury (n.d.)
Author 1 and Author 2 (year of publication),… (Fury, n.d.).
(Author 1 & Author 2, year of publication). Rule 9: When the author is not known, use the title of the web source (for long
Examples: According to Parker and Rogers (2016), … titles use few words only) instead and the date. If the date is not known, use n.d.
(Parker & Rogers, 2016).
Rule 3: When citing an article with three to five authors, the presentation Examples:
follows the format for two authors in the first citation. In subsequent citations,
It is written in the article “Life of Tony Stark” (2015),
only the first author’s last name is written followed by et al. Note: the word ‘’et’’
(“Life of Tony Stark”, 2015).
is not followed by a period.

Examples: According to Parker, Rogers, Banner, Stark and Strange (2018) Rule 10: There is another format to follow when you are citing a secondary
For subsequent Parker et al. (2018) source or where your source quotes or refers to another source. Mention the
Rule 4: When citing an article with six or more authors, primary source, then cite the source you read and the date of publication.

Author 1 et al. (year of publication),… Examples: Shuri’s study conducted in 2018 (as cited in Potts, 2019)
(Author 1 et al., year of publication).
(Shuri, 2018, as cited in Potts,2019)
Examples: According to Banner et al. (2017),
(Banner et al., 2017)
F. Guidelines in Writing Reference List
Rule 5: When two or more articles are cited in the same parentheses, the order
to be followed is the order of the articles in the reference, separated by a semi- ▪ It appears at the end of the article/report/document, appears before the
colon. Appendices.
▪ It is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the author.
Example: (Ferman, 2015; Ramos, 2015) .
▪ If there is no author, use the title or first word ignore the articles like A,An,
Rule 6: When the author is not known, cite the title or the first two words of the The.
title in the parentheses instead. Titles of books are italicized or underlined while ▪ It should be double-spaced, and should have a hanging indent (of 5-7 spaces)
titles of articles are in quotation marks. for the second and subsequent lines for each entry. There are no
spaces/lines between the entries.
Example: Previous study on functional foods (“Consumer’s attitude”,
2015),
F.1. BOOKS title: Subtitle (edition, Vol. pp. [page range of article]). Place of Publication:
Publisher.
WITH ONE AUTHOR
EXAMPLES:
FORMULA: Author Surname, First Name Initial.(Year).Book Title: Subtitle. Place
of Publication:Publisher. Lindgren, H. C. (1994). Stereotyping. In Encyclopedia of psychology (Vol. 3,
pp. 468-469). New York, NY: Wiley
Mayer, D.(2010).Essential evidence-based medicine (2nd ed.).Cambridge,England:
F.4. JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PRINT
Cambridge University Press.
FORMULA:
WITH TWO-SIX AUTHORS
Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial., & Author Surname, First Initial.
FORMULA: Author Surname, First Name Initial., & Author Surname, Second Initial. (Year). Article title: Subtitle. Journal Title, Volume(issue), page
First Name Initial.(Year).Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication:Publisher. range.
Rogers, S.,& Stark, E.A., (2016). Managing conflict through communication. New EXAMPLES:
York City: Allyn & Bacon Paterson, B. L., & Thorne, S. (2003). Enhancing the evaluation of nursing care
WITH SEVEN AND MORE AUTHORS effectiveness. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 35(3), 26-38.

FORMULA: Include the first six authors' or editors' names, then insert F.5. JOURNAL ARTICLES ONLINE / PDF
three ellipsis points and add the last author or editors name in the Reference FORMULA:
List.
Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Article title: Subtitle. Journal
Berman, A., Snyder, S. J., Levett-Jones, T., Dwyer, T., Hales, M., Harvey, N., ... Title, Volume(issue), page range.
Stanley, D. (2012). Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing (2nd Aust. doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx ORhttp://dx.doi.org/xx.xxxxxxxxxx OR Retrieved from URL
ed.). Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson Australia. of journal home page [if available]

F.2. E-BOOKS EXAMPLES:

FORMULA: Roscoe, P. B. (1995). Familiar partners? The Mountain Arapesh and the
Westermark effect. Journal of Anthropological Research, 51, 347-363.
Author Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Book Retrieved from http://www.umn.edu/~jar
title:Subtitle. doi:xx.xxxxxxxxx OR http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxxxxxxxxx OR Retrieve F.6. WEBSITE
d from URL of the home page of the e-book provider. FORMULA:
Personal or Corporate Author. (Last update or date of revision/modification; if
EXAMPLE:
not known, put n.d.). Title of specific document. Retrieved from URL of specific
Hendry, J. (2005). Reclaiming culture: Indigenous peoples and self representation. document
EXAMPLES:
Retrieved from http://www.proquest.com/products- Beard, M. (2006). The fall of the Roman Republic. Retrieved from
services/ebooks/ebooks-main.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/fallofroman
republic_article_01.shtml
F.3. DICTIONARY/ENCYLOPEDIA

FORMULA:Author Surname [of Article], First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Royal Institute of British Architects. (n.d.). Shaping the future: Careers in
Article title. In Editor First Initial. Second Initial. Surname (Ed.), Reference book architecture. Retrieved from http://ww.careersinarchitecture.net/