Popular APS style Citation Examples

How to cite a Book in APS style


Use the following template to cite a book using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. City: Publisher.

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Reports, R. 2015. Health Care Law - Rasmussen Reports™. Rasmussenreports.com. Available at: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law [Accessed May 1, 2015].

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blha ahljdlj  jal jkld jfkdl (Reports 2015)


How to cite a Journal in APS style


Use the following template to cite a journal using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Publication Title. Volume number:Pages Used Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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michael kors outlet, m. 2015. michael kors outlet. michael kors outlet. Available at: http://www.charly-oradour.fr/img/Article/210.html.

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Considering Utilizing a Carpet cleaners Company? Here's What You should know (michael kors outlet 2015)


How to cite Film or Movie in APS style


Use the following template to cite a film or movie using the APS citation style.

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Peterson, H. 2014. Under Armour's Mega Offer To Kevin Durant Is Part Of A War On Nike. Business Insider. Available at: http://www.businessinsider.com/under-armours-plan-to-take-down-nike-2014-8?IR=T [Accessed April 19, 2015].

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Graph: Nike Vs Under Armour Revenue Performance (Peterson 2014)


How to cite an Online image or video in APS style


Use the following template to cite an online image or video using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Wikipedia,. 2015. Stephen Bray. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bray [Accessed April 30, 2015].

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""The songs Bray and Madonna composed often followed a distinctive structure, many of which repeats the song's second verse and bridge before fading out with the chorus.” (Wikipedia 2015)


How to cite a Website in APS style


Use the following template to cite a website using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Maxwell, L. 2012. tiffany & co. laurendmaxwell.wordpress. Available at: https://laurendmaxwell.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/tiffany-co-segmentation-target-marketing-and-position/ [Accessed April 21, 2015].

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Services high-end shoppers who are typically Generation X women who have the means to pay for high-quality goods; baby boomers who purchase first-class goods despite having limited disposable funds; and Generation Y women who enjoy mimicking the latest celebrity trends. These products include trophies and classic collection products, which are not gender specific (Maxwell 2012)


Additional APS style Citation Examples

How to cite a Blog in APS style


Use the following template to cite a blog using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Publication Title. Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Neurological Status Assessment. 2015. 1st ed. Queensland Ambulance Service. Available at: https://ambulance.qld.gov.au/docs/03_cpp_assessment_300812.pdf [Accessed April 25, 2015].

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""The AVPU scale represents a tool easily applied during the initial patient assessment."" (Neurological Status Assessment 2015)


How to cite a Court case in APS style


Use the following template to cite a court case using the APS citation style.

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Title. Year Published.

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Bate, D. 2009. Photography. Oxford: Berg.

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“We could generalize the definition of landscape as the geometry of space, the organization of a point of view towards a town/ garden/ city/ country/ suburb/ park or industrial wasteland/ wilderness/ public space, or architecture, land and nature. In all these spaces, the point of view of the camera, whatever time of day or night, organizes what is there into a cultural artefact: a landscape view” (Bate 2009)


How to cite a Dictionary entry in APS style


Use the following template to cite a dictionary entry using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Publication Title. :Pages Used Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Maboja, W. 2015. Competition Commission concludes retail investigation. Cnbcafrica.com. Available at: http://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/southern-africa/2014/01/27/competition-commission-concludes-retail-investigation/ [Accessed April 29, 2015].

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Assignment 1 Section D
Evaluation of whether the South African Competition Act is efficient in their scope to identify and remedy potentially anti-competitive activities as outlined in our discussions above (a to c):
In analysing the effectiveness of the Competition Act of South Africa, one need to look at the purpose for its existence. The main purpose of the act in summary is to promote and maintain competition in the republic in order to: promote efficiency, adaptability and development of economy. Furthermore, the act strives to provide customers with competitive prices, products choices and to ensure that small and medium sized enterprises have equal business opportunities. 

The Competition Commission as an independent body with its jurisdiction in the country operates under its own act which is in line with the constitution of the republic. The commissioner must exercise its powers without any fear, favour or prejudice. It is the responsibility of the competition commission to investigate and evaluate the alleged contravention of the act, implement measures to develop public awareness of the provisions of the Act and the referral of the matters to the Competition Tribunal.

For the Act to provide better control of its activities and effectively achieve its main purpose, it must relook at some of its sections in identifying and remedy potentially anti-competitive activities. 
The South African Competition act is very efficient is in its scope to identify and remedy potentially anti – competitive activities. The act has clearly provided the definition and application of terms and behaviours that are all associated with the anti-competition activities including the following;
1.	What constitutes dominant firms and how such firms and related firms can be said to be exercising market power?
2.	What abuse of dominance is and the charging of excessive prices, refusal to grant competitor access to essential facility.
3.	The engagement in exclusionary acts.
4.	Clarified the infrastructure or resources that constitutes essential facilities 
A clear understanding of these behaviours helps to identify anti competition activities if any firm within an industry has acted in such a way. For instance, the act stipulates that a firm is dominant once it has 45% of the market. It can be seen that the act is effective because by setting the maximum share of market a single firm can have it regulates the market and levels the playing field allowing firm to fairly complete regardless of their sizes.

However the South African Competition act has got its own weaknesses that can qualify it as not efficient is in its scope to identify and remedy potentially anti – competitive activities. The act allows for exemptions to compliancy to some its sections. The exemption criterion is not that clear and can be legally challenged. Once a particular firm within an industry has been exempted from some sections of the act, this can set a precedence that other firms in the same line of business or within same industry can also be exempted to the same. Also firms can willingly engage in anti – competitive activities so long they can seek and justify exemption. 
The formalities involved when triggering a market inquiry can be limitations in themselves. For instance, the enquiry is said to be worthy doing only if it can be reasoned that there have been distortions or restrictions to competition in the market. Twenty (20) business days are required as a notice of enquiry. This is considerably too much time, enough to unnecessarily allow the parties to be investigated ample time to rectify, make corrective measures or even engage in underhand activities with the aim of distorting the outcome of the investigations.
The act could be more efficient if it carries out their enquiries without notice as the notice actually hinders the process by forewarning the parties to be investigated. Or at least the notice period should have been a matter of hours say 48 hours etc. (Maboja 2015)


How to cite an E-book or PDF in APS style


Use the following template to cite an e-book or pdf using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. City: Publisher. Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Lingüística Aplicada. 2015. Diccionario de términos clave de ELE. Available at: http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/diccio_ele/diccionario/linguisticaaplicada.htm [Accessed April 30, 2015].

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La lingüística aplicada es una rama de la lingüística cuya meta es la aplicación de las teorías, métodos y conocimientos propios de la lingüística a la resolución de problemas diversos en los que está implicado el uso de la lengua; en otros términos, se interesa por las aplicaciones de la lingüística en otras áreas de la experiencia humana. Debido a que las esferas que entrañan el uso de la lengua son múltiples y muy variadas, la lingüística aplicada comprende de hecho disciplinas diversas, la mayoría de las cuales se constituyen como campos interdisciplinares del saber. (Lingüística Aplicada 2015)


How to cite an Edited book in APS style


Use the following template to cite an edited book using the APS citation style.

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Ultimate-guitar.com,. 2009. Crafter: TC-035 | Reviews @ Ultimate-Guitar.com. Available at: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/acoustic_guitars/crafter/tc-035 [Accessed May 1, 2015].

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Unplugged it sounds like a pretty standard country acoustic, but powered the L.R.Baggs Element Pick-up makes it a whole new animal. Even through a clean channel on a thirty watt Marshall amp. With all the controls pointing up you get a soft country blues-tone but adjust the settings and you notice a range of deep lows and sharp high's. (Ultimate-guitar.com 2009)


How to cite an Email in APS style


Use the following template to cite an email using the APS citation style.

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Weir, K. 2012. Embarrassment acts as a social glue that can strengthen our relationships, but it also has a dark side, research finds. http://www.apa.org. Available at: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/embarrassment.aspx [Accessed April 19, 2015].

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Fear of embarrassment causes people to behave in really irrational ways,"" says Harris. ""Understanding more about the emotion itself can help people decide when they should think twice about embarrassment preventing them from engaging in behaviors."" (Weir 2012)


How to cite an Encyclopedia article in APS style


Use the following template to cite an encyclopedia article using the APS citation style.

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Psychologistworld.com,. 2015. Cognitive Approach (Psychology) - Cognitive Psychology -  Psychologist World. Available at: http://psychologistworld.com/cognitive/approach.php [Accessed April 29, 2015].

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The Cognitive Approach is a relatively modern approach to human behaviour that focuses on how we think, with the belief that such thought processes affect the way in which we behave. (Psychologistworld.com 2015)


How to cite an Interview in APS style


Use the following template to cite an interview using the APS citation style.

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Dwyer, L. 2015. YouTube is the School of the Future.

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The big difficulty for students doing homework is you’re doing it in a vacuum where you wish you had your teachers and your peers around. You get no feedback, and if you get all the problems wrong, there’s no time in class the next day to actually practice it with feedback. Online learning changes all that (Dwyer 2015)


How to cite a Magazine in APS style


Use the following template to cite a magazine using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Publication Title. :Pages Used Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Rector, R., and Jason Richwine, P. 2013. The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer. The Heritage Foundation. Available at: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/05/the-fiscal-cost-of-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty-to-the-us-taxpayer [Accessed April 27, 2015].

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Over a lifetime, the former unlawful immigrants together would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay $3.1 trillion in taxes (Rector and Jason Richwine 2013)


How to cite a Newspaper in APS style


Use the following template to cite a newspaper using the APS citation style.

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2015

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Using the NASA Physical Activity Status Scale (PASS), what is your exercise Activity Rating? Please choose the scale number which best describes your physical activity level for the last month: 0 - 1 = Sedentary to light exercise 2 - 3 = Recreational activity, e.g., golf, bowling, yard work 4 - 10 = Heavy aerobic exercise, e.g., running or brisk walking or comparable activity, e.g., basketball, tennis, racquetball, aerobic dance   0. Avoid walking or exertion, e.g., always use elevator, drive whenever possible instead of walking.

1. Walk for pleasure, routinely use stairs, or occasionally exercise sufficiently to cause heavy breathing or perspiration.

2. 10 to 60 minutes per week.

3. Over one hour per week.

4. Run about 1 mile per week or walk about 1.3 miles per week or spend about 30 minutes per week in comparable physical activity.

5. Run 1 to 5 miles per week or walk 1.3 to 6 miles per week or spend 30 to 60 minutes per week in comparable physical activity.

6. Run 6 to 10 miles per week or walk 7 to 13 miles per week or spend in1 to 3 hours per week in comparable physical activity.

7. Run 11 to 15 miles per week or walk 14 to 20 miles per week or spend 4 to 6 hours per week in comparable physical activity.

8. Run 16 to 20 miles per week or walk 21 to 26 miles per week or spend 6 to 8 hours per week in comparable physical activity.

9. Run 21 to 25 miles per week or walk 27 to 33 miles per week or spend 9 to 11 hours per week in comparable physical activity.

10. Run over 25 miles per week or walk over 34 miles per week or spend over 12 hours per week in comparable physical activity. ( 2015)


How to cite a Podcast in APS style


Use the following template to cite a podcast using the APS citation style.

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Author Surname, Author Initial. Year Published. Title. Publication Title. Available at: http://Website-Url [Accessed October 10, 2013].

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Kim, S., Laschi, C., and Trimmer, B. 2013. Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics. Trends in Biotechnology. 31:287-294.

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A soft material allows the interface to be rhythmically stretched, reproducing the cyclical mechanical effects of breathing. (Kim, Laschi and Trimmer 2013)


How to cite a Song in APS style


Use the following template to cite a song using the APS citation style.

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Hayes, A. 2012. The Changing Face of Foster Care in Australia. Fostering NSW. Available at: http://www.caspa.asn.au/system/files/Fostering_NSW_Trend_Paper_FINAL.pdf [Accessed April 28, 2015].

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At the same time, traditional methods of out-of-home care are under threat, squeezed by fewer stay-at-home mums and more stay-at-home kids. (Hayes 2012)


How to cite The Bible in APS style


Use the following template to cite The Bible using the APS citation style.

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Pacula, R., and Kilmer, B. 2003. Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?. Available at: http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6715853.pdf [Accessed May 1, 2015].

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We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent, property and income-producing crime even after accounting for other substance use in the ADAM data. Reduced form equations using both data sets only provide evidence supporting a causal mechanism for property and income-producing crime. In the case of violent crime, we find a statistically significant association with arrests but not reported crime, suggesting that marijuana use may just influence the likelihood of getting caught committing these crimes. (Pacula and Kilmer 2003)


How to cite a TV Show in APS style


Use the following template to cite a TV Show using the APS citation style.

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Weir, K. 2012. Embarrassment acts as a social glue that can strengthen our relationships, but it also has a dark side, research finds. http://www.apa.org. Available at: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/embarrassment.aspx [Accessed April 20, 2015].

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Researchers found that people who tended to express more outward signs of embarrassment while describing their embarrassing moments (such as tripping or passing gas in pubic) also reported a tendency to be more “prosocial"" — that is, kinder and more generous (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012) (Weir 2012)