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King's Guide to Referencing

This page provides examples of how to reference common information sources. For an exhaustive list of item types see APA 7th guidance in Cite Them Right Online (King's login required).

Direct quotation

In-text Citation:

At some institutions there is a "culture of giving lectures" (Race, 1999, p. 55).

Book

In-text Citation:

It has been argued that insufficient attention paid to staff training increases the risk of staff committing plagiarism (Beins, 2012).

Reference List:

Beins, B. (2012). APA style simplified: writing in psychology, education, nursing, and sociology. Wiley-Blackwell.

Journal article

In-text Citation:

Weiss and Dube (2016) come to a different conclusion in their study.

Reference List:

Weiss, K. J., & Dube, A. R. (2016). Rational Psychiatric Care of Jail Inmates: It Happened in Monterey. Psychiatric Services, 67(1), 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201500432 

Chapter in an edited book

In-text Citation:

Winter (2003) provides an illustration of the personal construct formulations of self‐harm.

Reference List:

Winter, D. (2003). Psychological Disorder as Imbalance. In F. Fransella (Ed.), Personal Construct Psychology (pp. 201). John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Conference paper

In-text Citation:

Whisenhunt et al. (2019) argue that it is important to consider context in order to make content meaningful.

Reference list:

Whisenhunt, B. L., Hudson, D. L. & Beers, M. (2019, January 3-6). Teaching traps, transitions, and connection: Providing context to make the content meaningful [Paper presentation]. National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL, United States.
https://nitop.org/Conference-Schedule

Webpage

In-text Citation:

... in the short and medium term at least (Pym, 2016).

Reference List:

Pym, H. (2016, February 5). NHS finances - the short, medium and the long term. BBC. Retrieved February 9, 2016, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35505843

Film

In-text Citation:

...the subtle composition of the train carriage scenes (Hitchcock, 1941).

Reference List:

Hitchcock, A. (Producer/Director). (1941). Suspicion [Motion picture]. Turner.

Generative AI

King's has produced new student guidance on the use of generative AI tools. Students are not expected to reference generative AI but are expected to acknowledge its use through a statement. Please see the central Student Guidance for details. 

Reference list

You need to provide a list of the sources you have used; in APA 7th Style this is called a Reference List. It is arranged in alphabetical order by the author's surname:

References:

Billingham, L. (2014). Improving academic library website accessibility for people with disabilities. Library Management, 35(8/9), 565-581. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-11-2013-0107

Brannen, M. H., Milewski, S., & Mack, T. (2017). Providing staff training and programming to support people with disabilities: An academic library case study. Public Services Quarterly, 13(2), 61-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2017.1298491 

Burton, S. (2015, June 9). The academic e-book landscape: Technological problems. CILIP. Retrieved September 12, 2015, from https://archive.cilip.org.uk/blog/academic-e-book-landscape-technological-problems

Dermody, K., & Majekodunmi, N. (2011). Online databases and the research experience for university students with print disabilities. Library Hi Tech, 29(1), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378831111116976

Farkhas, M. (2016) Accessibility matters: Ensuring a good online library experience for all our patrons. American Libraries Magazine, September-October, 54. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/09/01/accessibility-matters/

Winter, D. (2003). Psychological Disorder as Imbalance. In F. Fransella (Ed.), Personal Construct Psychology. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Full guide to APA 7th

Referencing e-learning course

Style Guidelines

The guide above was updated in July 2025 to clarify:

  • how to format a reference list using indentation
  • how to cite the same author multiple times
  • how to reference hospital trust guidelines
  • how to reference documents written on behalf of an organisation
  • how to use acronyms
  • how to reference chapters in reports
  • how to reference amended or updated documents
  • how to reference online documents with electronic page numbers 
  • how to reference using DOI