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Referencing for Business

Information for using APA style to reference sources in business writing.

How to reference books

Here are the basic formats for referencing books. The grey boxes highlight the information that needs to change in each reference. You do not include them in your own work.

Pay close attention to the punctuation and capitalisation in each of the formats and the examples below.

Print book

Author, J. K., (year). Title of Print Book. Publisher name.

eBook with DOI

Author, J. K., (year). Title of Electronic Book. Publisher name. https://doi.org/10.xxxxx.

eBook without DOI

Author, J. K., (year). Title of Electronic Book [format]. Publisher name. https://ebook URL.

Examples of book references

Berenson, M. L., Levine, D. M., Szabat, K. A., & Stephan, D. (2020). Basic business statistics: Concepts and applications (14th Global ed.). Pearson Education Limited.

Jonick, C. (2017). Principles of financial accounting [PDF]. University of North Georgia Press. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/640

Maier, C. (2021). Family company direction case. In M. Hilb (Ed.), New living cases on corporate governance (pp. 25–29). Springer International. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48606-8_6

Weiss, J. (2021). Business ethics (7th ed.). Berret-Koehler Publishers. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/business-ethics-seventh/9781523091560/

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