In-text citations can be confusing because e-books often lack page numbers. of the Publication Manual (examples 19, 20, and 21) for some more help. The second example shows how to cite a book with no DOI provided: Brill, P. The first example below is from the APA's blog post and shows how to use a DOI in the citation, if one is provided. If the full URL is very long (like the URL for O'Brien's book in the example below was), give the homepage URL and a description of where to find the book from there, or the store name-your preference (e.g., Amazon Kindle store or ). Below is some information from these posts.įor the reference list, include the author, year, book title, the version of book you read, and the DOI or URL where you downloaded the book.

The American Psychological Association has a blog post about how to cite ebooks.