APA Style 6th edition

The Most Basic Rules

• start references on a new page (not on the same page as the text of the paper)
• the word 'References' appears centered a the top of the page; DO NOT bold
• double-spaced
• entries are formatted with hanging indents (see video on this page)
• alphabetize reference list entries by the surname of the first author followed by the initials of the author's first and middle names

If citing multiple sources by the same author (or group of authors) with the same publication year, arrange the citations in order of title and place lowercase letters directly after the publication year in the citation:

• Rabbat, S. R., McKlen, D. S., & Sheppard, F. T. (2016). Building...
• Robert, Z. E. (1992). International...
• Roberts, A. L. (2012a). Global...
• Roberts, A. L. (2012b). Physical...
• Roberts, A. L. (2012c). Standard...
• Roberts, A. L. (2017). Accidental...
• Robertson, A. (2005). Global...
• Rufaro, O. O, Diallo, W. A., Duzai, S. A., & De Bruyn, J. J. (2016). Farther...

Only use Arabic numerals (Vol. 3 even if listed as Vol. III), unless a Roman numeral is part of the title (Gasland, Part II).

If a source has no listed person(s) as author, look for a group author taking responsibility for the source and place the group author title in the position of author. A group author can be an institution, company, organization, etc.

• American Cancer Society. (2016). Relay for life...
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Comprehensive testing...
• Novartis Global. (2016). Global revenues...
• University of Northern Colorado. (2016). Mission and vision...

If a source has no listed person(s) or group as author, move the title of the source into the author position. Only if a source is signed 'Anonymous' should anonymous be used in the place of the author.

Number of Authors in APA Style Reference Citations