The bibliography is arranged alphabetically regardless of their respective types of reference material. They are no longer classified as books, journals, periodicals, theses or dissertations, or online sources. All sources are double-spaced with hanging indentation.
Order of references in the bibliography list
- When alphabetizing, remember that ―nothing precedes some-thing. For example: Brown precedes Browning.
- If you are citing two or more works by the same author, always repeat the author’s name and order them by year of publication, with the earliest first.
- One-author entries appear in the reference list before multiple-author entries beginning with the same surname, regardless of the year.
- For entries beginning with the same name, but with different coauthors, alphabetize by the last names of the second author listed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Book by a single author or editor
Fair, J. D. (1999). Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the manly culture of York Barbell. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Gallagher, G. W. (Ed.). (1989). Fighting for the Confederacy: The personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Wood, E. W., Jr. (2006). Worshipping the myths of World War II: Reflections on America’s dedication to war. Washington, DC: Potomac Books.
Book by two or more authors
Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2003). The craft of research (2nd ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Book by a corporate author
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: Author.
Chapter in a book
Begin the citation with the information for the chapter you are using, followed by the information for the book. Notice the page numbers for the piece you are citing appear after the title of the book.
Putnam, J. W. (2009). Cooperative learning for inclusion. In P. Hick, R. Kershner, & P. T. Farrell (Eds.), Psychology for inclusive education: New directions in theory and practice (pp. 81-95). London, England: Routledge.
Article from a reference book
Begin the citation with the author for the entry you are citing. If no author is given, begin the citation with the title of the entry.
Moore, C. C., & Munroe, R. L. (2000). Cognitive anthropology. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encylopedia of psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 132-135). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Reber, A. S. (1995). Phenomenology. In The Penguin dictionary of psychology (2nd ed., p. 564). London, England: Penguin Books.
Article from an online reference book
Hajek, P. (2006). Fuzzy logic. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Summer 2009 ed.). Retreived from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2009/entries/logic-fuzzy/Accessed through Gale Virtual Reference Library, a library subscription database
Cameron, J., & Pierce, W. D. (2008). Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. In N. J. Salkind & K. Rasmussen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of educational psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 555-560). Retrieved from www.go.galegroup.com
Scholarly journal article with continuous pagination
English, R. (2006). Open access to federally funded research: The time is now. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 6, 249-252. doi:10.1353/pla.2006.0036
Gray, R. (2009). A model of motor inhibition for a complex skill: Baseball batting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 15, 91-105. doi:10.1037/a0015591
Kay, A. C., Gaucher, D., Peach, J. M., Laurin, K., Friesen, J., Zanna, M. P., & Spencer, S. J. (2009). Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 421-434. doi: 10.1037/a0015997
If there are more than seven authors, list the first six authors’ names, followed by three ellipses, and then add the final author’s name.
Harden, K. P., Lynch, S. K., Turkheimer, E., D’Onofrio, B. M., Waldron, M. D., Martin, N.G., . . . Emery, R. E. (2007). A behavior genetic investigation of adolescent motherhood and offspring mental health problems. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116,667-683. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.116.4. 667
Scholarly journal article, journal paginated by issue
Baard, P. P. (1994). A motivational model for consulting with not-for-profit organizations: A study of church growth and participation. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 46(3), 19-31. doi:10.1037/1061-4087.46.3.19
Informally published, from ERIC
Herman, W. E. (2009). Understanding psychology within the context of the other academic disciplines. Retrieved from ERIC database. (ED505273)
Print Magazine/Periodical
Hemp, P. (2009, September). Death by information overload. Harvard Business Review, 87(9), 83-89.
Jaret, P. (2009, September). The new middle age. Prevention, 61(9), 98-105.
Remember the facts by cramming with fat. (2009, May 2). New Scientist, 202(2706), 15.
From a library subscription database
Online from the paper’s website
Hafner, K. (2009, May 25). Texting may be taking a toll. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com
You can see that the citations for the library database and the paper’s website are almost identical, with the exception of the page number and the date.
Technical Reports
Publication Manual, pages 205-206
Corporate author, government report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (2003). Your guide to lowering blood pressure. (NIH Publication No. 03-5232). Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/hbp_low/hbp_low.pdf
Cloud, J. (2009, June 1). Why your memory may not be so bad after all. Time, 173(21), 53. Retrieved from http://www.time.com
Despite the fact the above articles were accessed through ProQuest, the retrieval statement will show the home page for the magazine, even if the full text of the article is not available from the magazine’s website.
Newspaper article
Use the abbreviations p. or pp. preceding the page numbers for newspaper articles.
Print
Hafner, K. (2009, May 26). Texting may be taking a toll. The New York Times, p. D1.
From a library subscription database
Hafner, K. (2009, May 26). Texting may be taking a toll. The New York Times, p. D1. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com
