APA in blogs

If you need to us APA citations in blogs, you may find that you can't make the hanging indent work.

Your lecturer may be okay with this if you talk to them (especially if you aren't very technologically minded), but if you know a little about html code and want to make your reference lists look more professional, use the following code:

REFERENCES
<div style="padding-left: 4em; text-indent: -4em;">

<p>...first reference...</p>
<p>...second reference...</p>
<p>...etc...</p>
</div>

(with thanks to Moonflowerdragon, for making it nice and simple).

This will make your references look like this:

Moonflowerdragon. (2010). HTML code for hanging indents for APA style reference list. Retrieved from http://moonflowerdragon.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/html-code-for-hanging-indents-for-apa.html

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Book chapters - APA: multiple editors

The Question:

How do you format book chapters if there are more than three editors?

The Answer:

If there are up to five editors, you list all of the editors (with an & between the last two):

T. Frogmouth, S. Goose, B. Swallow & B. Heron (Eds.)

If there are six or more editors, list the first editor followed by et al.:

T. Frogmouth et al. (Eds.)

The Example:

(Less than six):

Stone-Curlew, B. (2013). Stillness as a form of defence. In T. Frogmouth, S. Goose, B. Swallow & B. Heron (Eds.), Camouflage:  The essential life skill (pp. 84-102). Birdsville, Australia: Crazy Chook Press.

(Six or more):

Stone-Curlew, B. (2013). Stillness as a form of defence. In T. Frogmouth et al. (Eds.), Camouflage:  The essential life skill (pp. 84-102). Birdsville, Australia: Crazy Chook Press.