APA Citation Guide: Citing a book

For an overview of the various ways to cite information in text in APA style, see the Purdue OWL, which provides an overview of the basic in text citation formats.

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. (Year). Title of book. Location: Publisher.

(Note: Some of the citations below may also include an article or chapter title and editors)

 Browne, D. (2008). Goodbye 20th century: A biography of
          Sonic Youth. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.

Crampton, L., & Rees, D.(2003). Rock & roll year by year.
          New York: DK Pub. in Association with the Rock and Roll

          Hall of Fame and Museum.

Waksman, S. (2006). Black sound, black body: Jimi Hendrix, the
          electric guitar and the meaning of blackness. In A.
          Bennett, B. Shank, & J. Toynbee (Eds.), The popular
          music studies reader (pp. 64-70). New York: Routledge.