APA referencing has a reference list.
A bibliography is a list of all resources used when undertaking research. This might include material that you did not specifically quote or paraphrase, but was background reading that supported your ideas and conclusions. APA referencing does not have bibliographies.
A reference has 4 elements.
Author/Editor (Who). Date (When). Title (What). Source (Where)
Carter, P. (2020). This is us: New Zealanders in our words. Exisle Publishing. |
One author | Dwyer, J. |
Two authors | Warne, K., & Quinn, P. J. |
Three to twenty authors | Lewis, J., DePasquale, P. J., & Chase, J. |
Twenty-one or more authors | Smith, J. T., Brown, A., Jones, H., White, B., Pene, G., Chen, T., Kingi, R., Lee, K., Singh, T., Patel, C., McDonald, R., Nikau, G., Rawiri, G., Reid, S., Seufale, D., Vi, W., Tilo, B., Anderson, P., Cross, M., … Hughes, B. |
Group author | Ministry of Health. |
No author | Title moves to author position followed by year of publication |
Anonymous | Anonymous. (2019). |
The year of publication is in parentheses ( ).
Missing element | Reference list entry | In text citation |
Author | Title. (Date). Source. | (Title, year). or Title (year)... |
Date | Author. (n.d.). Title. Source. | (Author, n.d.).or Author (n.d.)... |
Title | Author. (Date). [Description of the work]. Source | (Author, year). or Author (year)... |
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