Research by Subject: Nursing 219: Citing Sources

Citing Your Sources in APA

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
ISBN: 9781433832161
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style.

APA 7 Formatting and Style Guide
How to Cite a Mobile App (APA Style Blog)
Example APA citation for information from within a mobile app:
Sommers, M. S. (2019). Seizure. In, Diseases and disorders: A nursing therapeutics manual (6th ed.). In Nursing Central (Version v1.42) [Mobile app] Apple Store. https://www.apple.com/itunes/
- use how the company capitalizes its name in other places such as in its copyright statement or the text
- The URL should reflect where the reader could go to download the app
- The in-text citation for an app is the same as every other APA Style in-text citation: author and date. If there is no author, look how to do in-text citations with no author.
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Citing material from CINAHL or Nursing Reference Center

example: Schub, T., Mennella, H., & Pravikoff, D. (2017, February 17). Stroke: an overview. CINAHL Nursing Guide. Retrieved from Nursing Reference Center Plus database.

Start with the authors of the resource, care sheet, EBP guide, (add the date on the resource) Title. Aggregate Title from database. Retrieved from

Citing from the Nursing Central, Unbound Medicine web site:

Seizure. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's medical dictionary (23rd edition). F.A. Davis. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/745754/all/seizure