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LING 137: Style Manuals

This guide will help students of LING 137 navigate their assignment on comparing style manuals.

Citing a Book in APA Style

Authored book with a DOI (Manual section 10.2.20)

Brown, L.S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

For an explanation of DOI, see the section on electronic journal articles.

Authored book, print version, without a DOI (Manual section 10.2.21)

Burgess, R. (2019). Rethinking global health: Frameworks of power. Routledge.

Authored ebook (Manual section 10.2.22)

Christian, B., & Griffiths, T. (2016). Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. Henry Holt & Co. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015CKNWJI/

Book chapter (Manual section 10.2)

For a chapter in an authored book, create a reference for the whole book (see examples above) and provide the chapter information with the in-text citation only.

Chapter in an edited book without a DOI (Manual section 10.3.39)

Weinstock, R., Leong, G.B., & Silva, J.A. (2003). Defining forensic psychiatry: Roles and responsibilities. In R. Rosner (Ed.), Principles and practice of forensic psychiatry (2nd ed., pp. 7-13). CRC Press.

Reference book (Manual section 10.2.33)

Zalta, E.N. (Ed.). (2019). The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Summer 2019 ed.). Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/

Entry in an online reference work (Manual section 10.3.48)

Graham, G. (2019). Behaviorism. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Summer 2019 ed.). htttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/

Entry in an online reference work, no individual author or editor (Manual section 10.3.47)

Merriman-Webster (n.d.). Self-report. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved July 12, 2019, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-report

Government report (Manual section 10.4.50).  See also the Citing Gov Docs tab

National Cancer Institute. (2018). Facing forward: Life after cancer treatment (NIH Publication No. 18-2424). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/life-after-treatment.pdf

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