APA Style - 7th edition: Books

To write a reference entry for a book you need the following pieces of information:

• Author(s) or editor(s) (all of them up to 20)
• Year of publication
• Book title, including edition information if applicable
• Name of publishing company (you do not need the location of the publisher)
• If it is an eBook also include the DOI or URL (these should be live hyperlinks)
• For examples and more information see pages 321-326 in the manual

Example:

Strittmatter, C., & Bratton, V. K. (2016). Teaching plagiarism prevention to college students. An ethics based approach. Rowman & Littlefield. 

Zhang, Y. H. (2016) Against plagiarism: A guide for editors and authors. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24160-9

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To write a reference entry for a book chapter you need the following pieces of information:

• Author(s) of the chapter
• Year of publication
• Title of the chapter
• Book editor(s) information
• Book information (edition information, page numbers)
• Publication information (publishing company)
• If it an eBook also include the DOI or URL (these should be live hyperlinks)
• For examples and more information see pages 326-329 in the manual

Examples:

Zimitat, C. (2008). Student perspective of plagiarism. In T. S. Roberts (Ed.), Student plagiarism in an online world: Problems and solutions (pp. 10-22). Information Science Reference.