Please visit these sites for additional information on how to set up your Reference List:
Purdue Owl
APA Style (Explains the difference between a Reference List & Bibliography)
APA Style Blog
The Basics:
Put the reference list on a separate page at the end of the paper.
- Use the heading References, centered, at the top of the page, with no quotation marks, underlining, or italics
- Double-space the references.
- The first line of each reference should be at the left margin, subsequent lines should be indented one-half inch from the left margin (i.e., hanging indent).
- Alphabetize the list by authors' last names.
Organize the reference list alphabetically by authors' last names.
- List authors' names with last name first, followed by initial(s).
- Include the name and initial(s) for all authors of a work.
- Use "&" rather than "and" when listing multiple authors of a single work.
- If the work has no author, use the title in place of the author.
Format titles of books, journals, and articles according to APA stle.
- Italicize titles of books and journals.
- Do not put quotation marks around article titles.
- For book and article titles: Capitalize first words of title and subtitle and proper nouns.
- For journal titles, capitalize all significant words.
Include the information listed below.
- Include date of publication (year and month for monthly publications; year, month and day for daily or weekly publications).
- Include volume # and issue # for journals paginated by issue.
- Include page numbers of articles.
