Understanding APA 7 Referencing

In-text Citations

Acknowledge authors using the following formats:

Brown (2022) expressed the idea that yellow sunflowers create much happiness.

Yellow sunflowers create much happiness (Brown, 2022), although other researchers have found little evidence of change in demeanour (Jones & Evans, 2005; Gibbins et al., 2003).  

Direct Quote

According to Brown (2022), "yellow sunflowers significantly increase happiness," (p. 24).

"Yellow sunflowers have no significant effect on happiness," (Jones & Evans, 2005, p.65).

Three or more authors, use "et al." for in-text citations. 

References (end of writing)

Reference list

Place the reference list on a new page at the end of your assignment and centre and bold the heading "References".

In your reference list:

• add a reference for every source cited in your work.
• sort references alphabetically (A-Z) by surname of the first author of the work, if no author sort under the first significant word of the title
• use a hanging indent the second line and subsequent lines of a reference are indented tabbed space or 1.27cm
• double space references throughout the list
• write titles using sentence case - capitalise the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or dash, and proper names.
• italicise titles of books, journals, films, videos, and web sites but not book chapters and journal article titles.
• write journal titles and corporate authors' names out in full, no abbreviations

Use this extensive list as a guide for legal Acts, websites, books, music, or electronic journal (from Griffith University).