Citation styles - APA

CASES

FORM

EXAMPLES

for a single author

(Author’s surname, year of publication)

(Smith, 2018)

for two authors

(Author1’s last name & Author2’s last name, year of publication)

(Smith & Heywood, 2018)

three to five authors

on first occurrence: (Author1’s surname, Author2’s surname, Author3’s surname, Author4’s surname & et al., year of publication)

later occurrence: (Author1’s surname & et al., year of publication)

(Smith, Heywood, Hudson, Watson & et al., 2018)

(Smith & et al., 2018)

for six or more authors:

(Author1’s surname & et al., year of publication)

(Smith & et al., 2018)

when using publications by the same author(s) in the same year, the distinction may be made by a, b, c... after the year of publication

(Author's surname, year of publication a, year of publication b)

(Smith, 2018a, 2018b)

in case of reference to several works, the data of the works are provided in alphabetical order according to the names of the authors

(Last name of author of first work, year of publication; name of author of second work, year of publication)

(Heywood, 2020; Smith, 2018)

if the text contains the name of the author

... as stated by author's surname (year of publication)...

… as Smith (2018) found…

when quoting verbatim, the quoted text is enclosed in quotation marks and a page number is always given

(Author's surname, year of publication, exact page number)

(Smith, 2018, p.23)

DOCUMENT TYPE

FORM

EXAMPLES

book

Author's surname, First initial of first name. (Year). Book title. Publisher.

Hague, R., Harrop, M. (2010). Comparative Government and Politics : An Introduction. Basingstoke, New York : Palgrave Macmillan.

conference proceedings

Editor's last name, First initial (ed.) (Year). Volume title. Publisher.

Fotaris, Panagiotis (ed.) (2024). Proceedings of the 11^th European Conference on Social Media. Brighton: University of Brighton.

book chapter

or study

Last name of the author of the book chapter/study, First initial of the author's name. (Year). Title of the book chapter/study. In Editor's Last Name First Initial of First Name(ed.), Book Title. (pp.: Book Chapter / Study Page Number from to). Publisher.

Walzer, M. (2014). Citizenship In Bellamy, R. & Kennedy-Macfoy, M. (eds.), Citizenship. Critical Concepts in Political Science. (pp. 86-92). Routledge.

journal article

Author’s Last name, First initial of author's first name. (Year). Title of the article. Journal name, Volume number (journal number/issue/volume number). Page number of the article from t to t.

DOI number

Huntington, S. (1991). Democracy’s Third Wave. Journal of Democracy, 2(2), 12-34.

DOI 10.1353/jod.1991.0016

electronic document

Author’s Last name, First name of author (Year and month of creation) Title of document. Page name. Date downloaded: year viewed. month, day, source: site name: URL address

Leek, J. (2022, December 27). What is artificial intelligence? A three part definition. Simply Statistics

Available: https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2017-01-19-what-is-artificial-intelligence/ (Letöltve: 2024.01.15.)