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General Guidelines

The Publication Manual of the APA (6th edition) includes scant information about how to cite document types common to business; in some cases there are different ways to interpret how to cite a specific item. The manual does state that when it offers no examples for the type of document to be cited, then you should find the closest example and use it to build your citation, which is what we have done with this guide (see p. 193, para.2 for more information on this rule).

In text citations

Capitalize all major words in titles within the body of the paper (Rule 4.15, p.101).

Example

• According to the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Survey of 2010 [...]
• In the book Business Ethics as Rational Choice, Hooker claims that [...]

Example

• According to Marketline (2010),..."direct_quotation" (p. 34).
• "Direct_quotation"... (Acer, Inc., 2010, p. 17).

When paraphrasing from a source, or when referring to an idea contained in another work, you are encouraged to provide a page number (Rule 6.04 p. 171). If there is no date of publication, use the abbreviation (n.d.). List two or more works by different authors who are cited within the same parentheses in alphabetical order by the first author's surname or group/organization name (Rule 6.16 p. 177).

Example
(Bureau van Dijk, 2010; Datamonitor, 2009; Simpson, 2010)

It is acceptable to abbreviate long names in the second and following in-text references. Just be sure to give the reader enough information to be able to match the in text reference to the citation in the reference list.

Reference List

See also: Notes on common issues encountered when citing business resources.