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APA 6th Edition

APA 7th Edition

In-text Citation

Could include 3 authors for in-text (parenthetical) citations 

E.g.- (Gill, Garg & Doegar, 2017)

If more than 2 authors are mentioned, one must mention the first author and then et al.

E.g.- (Gill et al., 2017)

Reference

When a reference had more than seven authors, only the first seven authors were listed in the references list, followed by et al.

Can include up to 20 authors.

Publication Location

Use Publisher’s City and State

E.g.- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. Kochi, Kerala: Penguin.

Do not use Publisher’s City or State

E.g.- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. Penguin. 

Website referencing

Required Author name, Date, Title of document, format description and URL.

E.g.- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys.[Web]. Retrieved  May 2, 2010, from http://xxxxxxxxx

Can include Website names are now included as well as the webpage title.

E.g- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. Researchgate. http://xxxxxxxxx

Medium for Ebook

Includes medium.

E.g.- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. [Ebook]. Retrieved from http://xxxxxxxxx

You no longer need to give the platform, format, or device but mention the publisher.

E.g- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. Researchgate. http://xxxxxxxxx 

URL 

Before the URL use “Retrieved from”

E.g.- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. [Ebook]. Retrieved from http://xxxxxxxxx

Do not use “Retrieved from” before the URL

E.g- Gill, A. (2017). Conducting online surveys. Researchgate. http://xxxxxxxxx

DOI

Use of Tag “DOI”

E.g. DOI: 10.1177/263188888888888

Do not use DOI instead, it must be formatted the same as URLs.

E.g. https://doi.org/10.1177/263188888888888