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Online Books APA Style

The guidelines for citing eBooks outlined here are based on the APA's Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fourth Edition, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1994 and the document "Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association" (2001, January 10) that is posted on the APA?s web site (www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)

IN GENERAL THE INFORMATION TO SITE AN E-BOOK IS:

Author
Print version publication date (electronic version publication date if there is no print version)
Title
Print version publication place and publisher.
Date accessed (unique for each user)
Internet location eBook accessed from (examples: World Wide Web, netLibrary, University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center)
URL (in the following examples, the netLibrary URLs are for the "About This eBook" page)

Citations (In Text)

General Format:(Author, publication date (print), page number(s) in parenthesis)

Example: During the Civil War, female couriers for spies "hid messages in their upswept hairdos, in the hems of their petticoats, and behind pictures in their lockets" (Zeinert, Karen, 1998, 29-30).

Bibliographic References General Format

Author. (Print version publication date in parenthesis). Title in italics or underlined. Publication place (print): Publisher (print). Retrieved date accessed, from Internet location: URL

Examples of Publicly Accessible Titles:

Ferber, Edna. (199?). One Basket. Champaign, Ill: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved March 6, 2001, from netLibrary: (www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=2009409)

Wharton, Edith. (1996). The Age of Innocence. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library. Retrieved March 6, 2001, from netLibrary:
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&&v=1&&bookid=2009766

Examples of Copyrighted Titles:

Kerr, Jessica. (1997). Shakespeare?s Flowers. Boulder CO: Johnson Books. Retrieved March 6, 2001, from netLibrary:
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&&v=1&&bookid=60

Zeinert, Karen. (1998). Those Courageous Women of the Civil War. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press. Retrieved March 6, 2001, from netLibrary
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&&v=1&&bookid=28948