APSA (American Political Science Association) style guides
Choose the source you are citing from using the list below.
- Archive material
- Artwork
- Blog
- Book
- Broadcast
- Chapter of an edited book
- Conference proceedings
- Court case
- Dictionary entry
- Dissertation
- DVD, video, or film
- E-book or PDF
- Edited book
- Encyclopedia article
- Government publication
- Interview
- Journal
- Magazine
- Music or recording
- Newspaper
- Online image or video
- Patent
- Podcast
- Presentation or lecture
- Press release
- Religious text
- Report
- Software
- Website
Here are some examples of the APSA style:
Book: Nye, Joseph S. 2004. Soft Power. New York: Public Affairs.
Journal: Demirtas, Selda Celen, and Esin Tezer. 2012. 'Romantic Relationship Satisfaction, Commitment To Career Choices And Subjective Well-Being'. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 46: 2542--2549.
Website: romkyns, StackExchange User:, and Byron Schmuland. 2011. 'Example Of A Stochastic Process Which Does Not Have The Markov Property - Mathematics Stack Exchange'. Math.stackexchange.com. http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/89394/example-of-a-stochastic-process-which-does-not-have-the-markov-property (14 June 2014).