APA Referencing 7th ed.: Books

Greasley (2011) suggests that…

OR

Good time management can help you to improve your marks (Greasley, 2011).

Greasley, P. (2011). Doing essays & assignments: Essential tips for students. SAGE.

Polit and Beck (2018) state that....(p.237).

OR

...depressed patients (Polit & Beck, 2018, p.237).

When listing the authors' names use and when the names are not included in the brackets with the date. If the authors' names are included within the brackets use the & symbol.

Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2018). Essentials of nursing research: Appraising evidence for nursing practice (9th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Only list the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year, e.g.

Nankervis et al. (2014)

OR

(Nankervis et al., 2014)

Nankervis, A., Baird, M., Coffey, J., & Shields, J. (2014). Human resource management: Strategy and practice (8^th ed.). Cengage.

*Provide the names of all the authors (up to and including 20) in the reference list.

State Services Commission (2005)

OR

(State Services Commission, 2005).

If you want to cite from the item more than once, in the first citation provide the full name and the abbreviated name of the organisation, as shown below. In subsequent citations use the abbreviated organisational title. e.g.

(State Services Commission [SSC], 2005) Use this format for the first citation.

(SSC, 2005) Use for subsequent citations.

State Services Commission. (2005). The journey of a treaty.

(Belgrave et al., 2005).

OR  

Belgrave et al. (2005) describe ….

Belgrave, M., Kawharu, M., & Williams, D. (Eds.). (2005). Waitangi revisited. Oxford University Press.

(Papps, 2015).

OR

... as described in Papps (2015).

Papps, E. (2015). Cultural safety: Daring to be different. In D. Wepa (Ed.), Cultural safety in Aotearoa New Zealand (2^nd ed., pp. 36-48). Cambridge University Press.

Cross, W. M. (2016). Navigating nursing and midwifery research ethics. In S. Borbasi, & D. Jackson, Navigating the maze of research: Enhancing nursing and midwifery practice (4^th ed., pp. 83-99). Elsevier.

… (Harding, 2015).

OR

Harding (2015) notes that ….

Harding, M. (2015). The importance of nursing (A. Cashin, ANZ Adapt.). In D. Brown, H. Edwards, L. Seaton, & T. Buckley (Eds.), Lewis's medical surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (ANZ 4th ed., pp. 2-20). Elsevier.

Nursing Council of New Zealand (2012).

OR

(Nursing Council of New Zealand, 2012).

Nursing Council of New Zealand. (2012). Code of conduct for nurses.

As the Nursing Council of New Zealand wrote and published the book, the publisher details are not needed.

Ehambaranathan, E., & Murugasu, S. (n.d.). Introduction to resource integration management: The “M” approach to the global airline industry.

Drug resistance. (2019). In P. Harris, S. Nagy, & N. Vardaxis (Eds.), Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions (3rd revised Australian and New Zealand ed., p. 555). Elsevier.

...("Nursing care planning", 2013).

*In text, use a few words of the title, or the whole title if it is short, in place of an author name in the citation. Do not italicize the title.

Nursing care planning made incredibly easy (2^nd ed.). (2013). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

...("Evaluation", 2013)

*In text, use a few words of the chapter title, or the whole chapter title if it is short, in place of an author name in the citation

Evaluation. (2013). In Nursing care planning made incredibly easy (2^nd ed., pp.137-152). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.