Example APA Style: Book

Date published November 24, 2015 by Koen Driessen. Date updated: March 27, 2017

When referring to a book in your dissertation, you have to do so, according to the APA Style, in the following way:

Book
APA-format	AuthorLastName, FirstInitial. (Year). TitleBook (edition). City, State/Country: Publisher.
In referencelist	Porter, M.E. (1998). Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1^th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.
In the text	Research suggests that … (Porter, 1998). In a study Porter (1998) found that … .
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Koen Driessen

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