In the text, when you have paraphrased an edited book chapter, cite the chapter's authors and the year the book was published, as shown in the following examples. Parenthetical citation of a, To create a reference citation for a book in APA, you need the author, date, title, and publisher. Some books will require an additional journal title - use title style, i.e. capitalize all words except articles and prepositions. Book title or article title in a journal, magazine or newspaper - use sentence style, i.e. capitalize the first word of the title, the subtitle after the colon and all proper names. Place of publication. APA footnotes use superscript numbers and must appear in numerical order. You can place footnotes at the bottom of the relevant pages or on a separate footnotes page at the end: For footnotes at the bottom of the page, you can use your word processor to insert footnotes automatically. For footnotes at the end of the text in APA, Citing a Whole Book. When citing the volume as a whole, the editor's last name and initials should be included in place of those of the author: editor's last name, initials s. Ed. Year. Title: Subtitle. Editor. The abbreviation “Ed. " is included in parentheses to indicate that this is an edited volume. In the reference list, this would be the case.