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Referencing at HERC

Health Education and Research Centre (HERC) students are to use APA 7th Referencing Style.

Contact library staff if you need help with referencing.

APA Referencing Gallery

APA 7th Manual Made Easy

APA Guidelines - 7th Edition

How Do I Reference?

1 Author - Print
In-text Citation: (Author, Year, p.#) or Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Publisher.

 

1 Author - eBook

In-text Citation: (Author, Year, p.#) or Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book [eBook edition]. Publisher. URL

 

2 Authors - Print

In-text Citation: (Author & Author, Year, p.#) or Author and Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A., & Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Publisher.

 

2 Authors - eBook

In-text Citation: (Author & Author, Year, p.#) or Author and Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A., & Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book [eBook edition]. Publisher. URL

 

3 to 20 Authors - Print

In-text Citation: (Author et al., p.#) or Author et al. (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A., Author, A.A., & Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Publisher.

 

3 to 20 Authors - eBook

In-text Citation: (Author et al., Year, p.#) or Author et al. (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A., Author, A.A., & Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book [eBook edition]. Publisher. URL

 

Editors

In-text Citation: (Editor, Year, p.#) or Editor (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Editor, A.A. (Ed.). (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition). Publisher.

 

Volumes

In-text Citation: (Author, Year, p.#) or Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A. (Year). Title of book: Subtitle of book (Edition, Vol.#). Publisher.

 

Example

Tabbner's Nursing Care Theory and Practice 8E

Volume 1:

Koutoukidis, G., & Stainton, K. (Eds.). (2021). Tabbner's nursing care: Theory and practice (8th ed., Vol.1). Elsevier.

Volume 2:

Koutoukidis, G., & Stainton, K. (Eds.). (2021). Tabbner's nursing care: Theory and practice (8th ed., Vol.2). Elsevier.

eBook:

Koutoukidis, G., & Stainton, K. (Eds.). (2021). Tabbner's nursing care: Theory and practice (8th ed.). [eBook edition]. Elsevier. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=t8H_DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

1 Author - Print
In-text Citation: (Author, Year, p.#) or Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A. (Year). Title of article. Title of publication, Volume(Issue), pages. DOI (if available, even if using print edition)

 

1 Author - eJournal

In-text Citation: (Author, Year, p.#) or Author (Year, pp.#-#)

Reference List Format: Author, A.A. (Year). Title of article. Title of publication, Volume(Issue), pages. DOI or URL

 

Example

Tibbe, M., Arneson, S., & Welsh, C. (2023). Rise of the Virtual Nurse. AACN Advanced Critical Care, 34(4), 314–323. https://doi.org/10.4037/aacnacc2023391

 

Rise of the virtual nurse screenshot

Commonly cited resources for HERC students include the Code of conduct for nurses, the Code of ethics for nurses and the Enrolled nurse standards for practice.  HERC students should treat these professional standards as documents from a website with a group author for the purposes of APA referencing.  See Hints and Tips tab for working with Abbreviations.

 

In-text Citation: (Organisation [Abbreviation], Year, p.#) or Organisation [Abbreviation] (Year, pp.#-#) 

Reference List Format: Organisation [Abbreviation]. (Year). Title of document. Website name. URL

 

Examples:

International Council of Nurses [ICN]. (2021). The ICN code of ethics for nurses. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. https://www.icn.ch/sites/default/files/2023-06/ICN_Code-of-Ethics_EN_Web.pdf

 

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA]. (2016). Enrolled nurse standards for practice. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/documents/default.aspx?record=WD15%2f18366&dbid=AP&chksum=DQoSSmxeo5w3le87%2fnYjFw%3d%3d

 

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA]. (2018). Code of conduct for nurses. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/documents/default.aspx?record=WD17%2f23849&dbid=AP&chksum=ki92NMPa9thp9f9ZhTQNJg%3d%3d

  • The in-text citation points to the reference list entry, the reference list entry points to the original source.
  • Every time you refer to something you need to put a reference in to that something.  This means you can have multiple in-text citations to the same source.
  • No matter how many in-text citations you have to the same source, you only list it in the reference list once.
  • The author's last name and year of publication should always appear in the in-text citation.
  • Page numbers (or paragraph numbers for unpaginated sources) should be given for direct quotations.
  • The author can be a company, corporation or organisation.
    • If the organisation is known by an abbreviation, spell the name out in full the first time it is used and put the abbrevation in square brackets after it.  Thereafter you can use the abbreviation on its own to refer to the organisation.  Make sure you repeat this spelling the name out in full followed by the abbreviation in square brackets in your reference list entry.

e.g.

In-text citation:

According to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA], (2016, p.2) enrolled nurses are "responsible for the delegated care they provide". The NMBA goes on to provide ten standards of practice for enrolled nurses.

Reference list entry:

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA]. (2016). Enrolled nurse standards for practice. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/documents/default.aspx?record=WD15%2f18366&dbid=AP&chksum=DQoSSmxeo5w3le87%2fnYjFw%3d%3d

 

Acceptable abbreviations for use in reference list entries:

Revised edition = Rev. ed.

Second edition = 2nd ed.

Editor / Editors = Ed. / Eds.

No date = n.d.

Page / Pages = p. / pp.

Paragraph = para.

Volume / Volumes = Vol. / Vols.

 Number = No.

 

RefQuest

Play RefQuest a fun retro style referencing game, with 'fighting', time limits and easy to view tips. The following referencing styles are supported - APA 7th, AGLC, Chicago 17, Vancouver, Harvard Western SydU and MLA 8. 

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