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APA Formatting and Style (7th ed.) for Student Papers

NAU Guide to APA

Citations with a Missing Author

  • When no individual or group author (institution, government agency, organization, business, etc.) is identified, cite the title of the article.   

Quotation

Narrative:
In a recent Washington Post story, “The Horror in U.S. Prisons” (2015), prisoners subjected to solitary confinement reported experiencing “paranoia, hallucinations, bizarre sleep habits, selfmutilation and constant screaming” (p. A12). 
Parenthetical:
Prisoners subjected to solitary confinement reported experiencing “paranoia, hallucinations, bizarre sleep habits, self-mutilation and constant screaming” (The Horror in U.S. Prisons, 2015, p. A12). 

Paraphrase/Summary

Narrative:
In a recent Washington Post story, “The Horror in U.S. Prisons” (2015), prisoners subjected to solitary confinement reported experiencing a variety of extremely serious negative health and psychological effects.
Parenthetical:
Prisoners subjected to solitary confinement reported experiencing a variety of extremely serious negative health and psychological effects (The Horror in U.S. Prisons, 2015).
*** Remember: Each source listed on the reference page must correspond to at least one in-text citation in the body of the paper; each in-text citation must correspond to a source listed on the reference page.
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