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Cite in APA Style: References: Books

General Format

Author. (Date). Book title. Publisher. DOI if available

Notes:

  • Resources without a publication date should have (n.d.) as the publication year.
  • Use ampersands (&) when listing multiple authors of a publication. 
  • A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a stable URL; most often used for e-books. Look up a DOI here.

Books

Author, A. A. (Date of publication). Title of book (# edition). Publisher.

Vaidhyanathan, S. (2018). Antisocial media: How Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy. Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of chapter. In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (# ed., page range). Publisher.

Henson, B., & Ricketts, M. (2019). It’s complicated: Social media’s impact on the relationship between our personal and professional lives. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Internet and technology addiction: Breakthroughs in research and practice (2nd ed., pp. 473–487). Information Science Reference/IGI Global.

E-Books

Author, A. A. (Date of publication). Title of book (# edition). Publisher. DOI or stable link if available

If no DOI or stable link is provided by the publisher, then use no URL at all. Do not use the long, often-unstable URL provided in the top URL bar of many databases.

Bobel, C. & Kwan, S. (2019). Body battlegrounds: Transgressions, tensions, and transformations. Vanderbilt University Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/southernmethodist/detail.action?docID=5778014