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Example
Hassanien, A., & Dale, C. (2020). Hospitality business development (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Author – WHO? Use the family name followed by the initial letter of the first name. Use the ampersand “&” before the family name of the last author in the list. Check you have included the commas “,” and periods “.” in the correct place. If there is an editor instead of an author, insert the editor’s name in the place of the author’s, followed by (Ed.) or (Eds.) for more than one editor. If you are referring to a chapter by another author within an edited book, please refer to the page Chapter in edited book.
Date – WHEN? Write the year of publication of the article enclosed in parentheses ( ). Check you have included the period “.” in the correct place.
Title – WHAT? Write the title of the article in italics. Use sentence style capitalization, meaning the initial letter of the first word should be capitalized, following words should be lower case. If there is a period *.” or colon “:” in the title of the article, the initial letter of the following word should be capitalized. The names of people, countries and so on should have an initial capital letter. End the title with a period “.”.
Source – WHERE? Use the name of the publishing company. Do not include designations of business structure (e.g. Inc., Ltd.). End the publisher information with a period “.”.
Corresponding in-text citation styles
Parenthetical citation: Effective business planning is essential for the survival and success of companies in the hospitality industry (Hassanien & Dale, 2020).
Narrative citation: Hassanien and Dale (2029) state that effective business planning is essential for the survival and success of companies in the hospitality industry.
Direct quotation: “Business planning is critical in the hospitality industry if businesses are to survive and prosper” (Hassanien & Dale, 2020, p. 109).
For more information, see
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.), p.321, note 21.
American Psychological Association. (n.d). Reference examples – whole book. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples#whole