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APA Style: Citing Specific Parts of a Source

"There are many possible parts to cite."

  • pages
  • paragraphs
  • sections
  • tables
  • figures
  • chapters, forewords, or other sections of books
  • time stamps of videos or audiobooks
  • slide numbers in PowerPoint presentations

(Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 264)

Examples:

(Coast Mountain College, 2020, p. 10)

(Postman, 2006, Chapter 4)

(Postman, 2006, pp. 44–45)

(Coast Mountain College, 2020, paras. 2–3)

(Miller, 1992, Table 1)

(Lebedick, 2020, Slide 3)