{"id":14915,"date":"2019-11-14T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/?p=14915"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:37:20","slug":"book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-examples\/book\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cite a book in APA Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"kb-textbox border-left yellow\">This article reflects the\u00a0<strong>APA 7th edition<\/strong>\u00a0guidelines. <a href=https://www.scribbr.com/"https:////www.scribbr.com//apa-style//6th-edition//archived-apa-book-citation///">Click here<\/a> for APA 6th edition guidelines.<\/figure>\n<p>A book citation in <a href=https://www.scribbr.com/"https:////www.scribbr.com//category//apa-style///">APA Style<\/a> always includes the author\u2019s name, the publication year, the book title, and the publisher. Use the interactive tool to see examples.<\/p>\n<div class=\"scribbr-citation-example-generator\" data-citation-styles=\"apa\" data-source-type=\"book\" data-locale=\"en-US\"><\/div>\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\t<h6 class=\"h3\">Generate accurate APA citations with Scribbr<\/h6>\n\n<div class=\"border mb-3 cite-example\">\n\t\n\t<nav id=\"navMain\" class=\"d-flex\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"nav nav-tabs w-100 border-0\" id=\"nav-tab-apa\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"nav-item nav-link active\" id=\"nav-1-tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\" href=https://www.scribbr.com/"#\" data-target=\"#nav-apa-1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"nav-apa-1\" aria-selected=\"true\">Webpage<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"nav-item nav-link\" id=\"nav-2-tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\" href=https://www.scribbr.com/"#\" data-target=\"#nav-apa-2\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"nav-apa-2\" aria-selected=\"true\">Book<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"nav-item nav-link\" id=\"nav-3-tab\" data-toggle=\"tab\" 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my-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCite\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text-center cite-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb-0 py-2\"><strong>The Scribbr Citation Generator will automatically create a flawless APA citation<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/form>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script>\n(function() {\n\n\t$('input.cite-input').focusin(function(){\n\t\t$(this).closest('div.tab-content').find('.cite-description').addClass('focused');\n\t\t$('.cite-example').addClass('clicked');  \n\t});\n\t$('input.cite-input').focusout(function(){\n\t\t$('.cite-example').removeClass('clicked');  \n\t});\n\t$( \"#styleSelector .nav-item\" ).click(function (e) {\n\t\te.preventDefault();\n\t\t$styleValue = $(this).data('citation-style');\n\t\t$('.nav-tabs, .tab-content').addClass('d-none');\n\t\t$(`#nav-tab-${$styleValue}, #form-tab-${$styleValue}`).removeClass('d-none');\n\t\t$('#styleSelector .select-link').text($styleValue.toUpperCase());\n\t});\t\n\t\/\/fix active state after popper.js\n\t$('.cite-example .nav-tabs').on('shown.bs.tab', 'a', function (e) {\n\t\tif (e.relatedTarget) {\n\t\t\t$(e.relatedTarget).removeClass('active');\n\t\t}\n\t})\n})();\n<\/script>\n<br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/citation-example-generator.scribbr.com\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Note that the format is slightly different for reference books such as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-examples\/dictionary\/\"> dictionaries and encyclopedias<\/a>, and for scriptural works like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-examples\/bible\/\">the Bible<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"basic-format\">Basic book citation format<\/h2>\n<p>The in-text citation for a book includes the author&#8217;s last name, the year, and (if relevant) a page number.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/apa-reference-page\/\">reference list<\/a>, start with the author&#8217;s last name and initials, followed by the year. The book title is written in sentence case (only capitalize the first word and any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/language-rules\/capitalization-rules\/\">proper nouns<\/a>). Include any other contributors (e.g. editors and translators) and the edition if specified (e.g. &#8220;2nd ed.&#8221;).<\/p>\n<table class=\"kb-apa-example\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>APA format<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"text-color-purple\">Last name<\/span>, <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Initials<\/span>. (<span class=\"text-color-purple\">Year<\/span>). <span class=\"text-color-purple\"><em>Book title<\/em><\/span>\u00a0(<span class=\"text-color-purple\">Editor\/translator initials<\/span>,<span class=\"text-color-purple\"> Last name<\/span>, Ed. <span class=\"text-color-red\">or<\/span> Trans.) (<span class=\"text-color-purple\">Edition<\/span>). <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Publisher<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/reference-entry\/\">APA reference entry<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/reference-entry\/\"><\/a><\/th>\n<td>Anderson, B. (1983).\u00a0<em>Imagined communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism<\/em>. Verso.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/in-text-citation\/\">APA in-text citation<\/a><\/th>\n<td>(Anderson, 1983, p. 23)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 id=\"ebook\">Ebooks and online books<\/h2>\n<p>A citation of an ebook (i.e. a book accessed on an e-reader) or a book viewed online (e.g. on Google Books or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-examples\/pdf\/#book\">in PDF form<\/a>) includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/citing-sources\/what-is-a-doi\/\">DOI<\/a> where available. If there is no DOI, link to the page where you viewed the book, or where the ebook can be purchased or accessed.<\/p>\n<p>Since ebooks sometimes do not include page numbers, APA recommends using other methods of identifying a specific passage in your in-text citations\u2014for example, a chapter or section title, or a paragraph number.<\/p>\n<table class=\"kb-apa-example\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>APA format<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"text-color-purple\">Last name<\/span>, <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Initials<\/span>. (<span class=\"text-color-purple\">Year<\/span>). <span class=\"text-color-purple\"><em>Book title<\/em><\/span>. <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Publisher<\/span>. <span class=\"text-color-purple\">URL<\/span> <span class=\"text-color-red\">or<\/span> <span class=\"text-color-purple\">DOI<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/reference-entry\/\">APA reference entry<\/a><\/th>\n<td>Burns, A. (2018). <em>Milkman<\/em>. Faber &amp; Faber. https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ObKrVf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/in-text-citation\/\">APA in-text citation<\/a><\/th>\n<td>(Burns, 2018, para. 15)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 id=\"chapter\">Citing a chapter from an edited book<\/h2>\n<p>When citing a particular chapter from a book containing texts by various authors (e.g. a collection of essays), begin the citation with the author of the chapter and mention the book\u2019s editor(s) later in the reference. A page range identifies the chapter\u2019s location in the book.<\/p>\n<table class=\"kb-apa-example\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>APA format<\/th>\n<td><span class=\"text-color-purple\">Last name<\/span>, <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Initials<\/span>. (<span class=\"text-color-purple\">Year<\/span>). <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Title of chapter<\/span>. In <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Editor initials<\/span>. <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Last name<\/span> (Ed. <span class=\"text-color-red\">or<\/span> Eds.),<span class=\"text-color-purple\"><em> Book title<\/em><\/span> (pp. <span class=\"text-color-purple\">page range<\/span>). <span class=\"text-color-purple\">Publisher<\/span>. <span class=\"text-color-purple\">DOI if available<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/reference-entry\/\">APA reference entry<\/a><\/th>\n<td>Belsey, C. (2006). Poststructuralism. In S. Malpas &amp; P. Wake (Eds.),<em> The Routledge companion to critical theory<\/em> (pp. 51\u201361). Routledge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/in-text-citation\/\">APA in-text citation<\/a><\/th>\n<td>(Belsey, 2006, p. 55).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 id=\"multivolume\">Multivolume books<\/h2>\n<p>Some books come in multiple volumes. You may want to cite the entire book if you\u2019ve used multiple volumes, or just a single volume if that was all you used.<\/p>\n<h3>Citing a single volume<\/h3>\n<p>When citing from one volume of a multivolume book, the format varies slightly depending on whether each volume has a title or just a number.<\/p>\n<p>If the volume has a specific title, this should be written as part of the title in your reference list entry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kb-textbox border-left\"><span class=\"text-indent\">Eliot, T. S. (2015). <em>The poems of T. S. Eliot: <span class=\"highlight-green\">Vol. 1. Collected and uncollected poems<\/span><\/em> (C. Ricks &amp; J. McCue, Eds.). Faber &amp; Faber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the volume is only numbered, not titled, the volume number is not italicized and appears in parentheses after the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kb-textbox border-left\"><span class=\"text-indent\">Dylan, B. (2005). <em>Chronicles<\/em> <span class=\"highlight-green\">(Vol. 1)<\/span>. Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Citing a multivolume book as a whole<\/h3>\n<p>When citing the whole book, mention the volumes in parentheses after the title. Individual volume titles are not included even if they do exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kb-textbox border-left\"><span class=\"text-indent\">Eliot, T. S. (2015). <em>The poems of T. S. Eliot<\/em> <span class=\"highlight-green\">(Vols. 1\u20132)<\/span> (C. Ricks &amp; J. McCue, Eds.). Faber &amp; Faber.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where=to-find\">Where to find the information for an APA book citation<\/h2>\n<p>All the information you need to cite a book can usually be found on the title and copyright pages.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apa-book-citation.webp\" alt=\"APA book source info\" width=\"1200\" class=\"aligncenter mt-4 mb-4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/apa-reference-page\/\">APA reference list<\/a> entry for the book above would look like this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"kb-textbox border-left\"><span class=\"text-indent\">Butler, C. (2002). <em>Postmodernism: A very short introduction<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n    <h2>Frequently asked questions about APA Style citations<\/h2>\n<dl class=\"faq-list faq-list--arrows w-100 my-5\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/FAQPage\">\n            <div itemscope itemprop=\"mainEntity\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n            <dt id=\"cite-chapter-or-whole-book\" class=\"faq-list__title\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/frequently-asked-questions\/cite-chapter-or-whole-book\/\" class=\"faq-list__link qa-faq-anchor\">\n                    <span itemprop=\"name\">\n                        When should I cite a chapter instead of the whole book?\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/dt>\n            <dd id=\"cite-chapter-or-whole-book-answer\" class=\"faq-list__answer qa-faq-answer kb-article-styles\" itemscope itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n                <div itemprop=\"text\">\n                                        <p>When a book&#8217;s chapters are written by different authors, you should cite the specific chapter you are referring to.<\/p>\n<p>When all the chapters are written by the same author (or group of authors), you should usually cite the entire book, but some styles include exceptions to this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-examples\/book\/\">APA Style<\/a>, single-author books should always be cited as a whole, even if you only<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/working-with-sources\/how-to-quote\/\"> quote<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/working-with-sources\/how-to-paraphrase\/\">paraphrase<\/a> from one chapter.<\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/mla\/book-citation\/\">MLA Style<\/a>, if a single-author book is a collection of stand-alone works (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/mla\/short-story-citation\/\">short stories<\/a>), you should cite the individual work.<\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/chicago-style\/book-citations\/\">Chicago Style<\/a>, you may choose to cite a single chapter of a single-author book if you feel it is more appropriate than citing the whole book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/dd>\n        <\/div>\n            <div itemscope itemprop=\"mainEntity\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n            <dt id=\"et-al-apa-citations\" class=\"faq-list__title\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/frequently-asked-questions\/et-al-apa-citations\/\" class=\"faq-list__link qa-faq-anchor\">\n                    <span itemprop=\"name\">\n                        When should I use \u201cet al.\u201d in APA in-text citations?\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/dt>\n            <dd id=\"et-al-apa-citations-answer\" class=\"faq-list__answer qa-faq-answer kb-article-styles\" itemscope itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n                <div itemprop=\"text\">\n                                        <p>The abbreviation \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/citing-sources\/et-al\/\">et al.<\/a>\u201d (meaning \u201cand others\u201d) is used to shorten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/in-text-citation\/\">APA in-text citations<\/a> with <strong>three or more authors<\/strong>. Here\u2019s how it works:<\/p>\n<p>Only include the first author\u2019s last name, followed by \u201cet al.\u201d, a comma and the year of publication, for example (Taylor et al., 2018).<\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/dd>\n        <\/div>\n            <div itemscope itemprop=\"mainEntity\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n            <dt id=\"publisher-location\" class=\"faq-list__title\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/frequently-asked-questions\/publisher-location\/\" class=\"faq-list__link qa-faq-anchor\">\n                    <span itemprop=\"name\">\n                        Do I need to include the publisher\u2019s location in an APA book citation?\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/dt>\n            <dd id=\"publisher-location-answer\" class=\"faq-list__answer qa-faq-answer kb-article-styles\" itemscope itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n                <div itemprop=\"text\">\n                                        <p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/apa-seventh-edition-changes\/\">7th edition<\/a> of the APA manual, no location information is required for publishers. The 6th edition previously required you to include the city and state where the publisher was located, but this is no longer the case.<\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/dd>\n        <\/div>\n            <div itemscope itemprop=\"mainEntity\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n            <dt id=\"edition-apa-book-citation\" class=\"faq-list__title\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/frequently-asked-questions\/edition-apa-book-citation\/\" class=\"faq-list__link qa-faq-anchor\">\n                    <span itemprop=\"name\">\n                        When should I include the edition in an APA book citation?\n                    <\/span>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/dt>\n            <dd id=\"edition-apa-book-citation-answer\" class=\"faq-list__answer qa-faq-answer kb-article-styles\" itemscope itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n                <div itemprop=\"text\">\n                                        <p>If you\u2019re citing from an edition other than the first (e.g. a 2nd edition or revised edition), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribbr.com\/apa-style\/reference-entry\/#edition-volume-issue\">edition<\/a> appears in the reference, abbreviated in parentheses after the book\u2019s title (e.g. 2nd ed. or Rev. ed.).<\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/dd>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article reflects the\u00a0APA 7th edition\u00a0guidelines. 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