ASA Reference List Formatting for Successful Citation

References are an essential part of any essay because they are its backbone. Every source mentioned in text must be named here and vice versa, every reference from this list must be used at least once in text. Don’t put in more references to make it look like you’ve used more sources than you actually did. If it’s revealed, your mark will be lowered considerably because it’s counted as fake referencing.

All ASA references must be situated in alphabetic order (sort them by authors’ last names). List itself should be double-spaced, and hanging indents are needed after the first line. See an example of such indents in all references below. Also, use full names of all authors instead of “et al.” here. ASA citation machine can be of the best assistance in formatting this list.

Books with One Author Citation

ASA format requires mentioning full first and last names of an author, date of source’s creation, title (capitalized and in italics since we’re talking about books), as well as city/state and publishing house. In case no info about first name is present, use the initial only.

Lorens, Dorea. 2013. Rules of World’s Order. New York: Schocken Books.

Books with More Than One Author

With many authors present, list them all by separating them with a comma and put in “and” before the last name. Again, no “et al.” should be used.

Wilinson, Katrin, Samantha Morgan, Juliet Dodjers, and Lorie Miles. 2011. I Did Not Do This. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Articles Citation

The most common types of articles are those from academic journals and different magazines. Let’s check how the first category should be cited based on the ASA manual.

Vortens, Sue, and Mary Catrons. 2011. “Coming to Terms with One’s Lies.” New Marriage Studies 13(7):22-56.

As it’s evident, you need authors’ names, date, article’s title, the title of the journal, then its volume(issue):page numbers.
For articles that come from magazines, everything is pretty much identical, just add day as well as month of publication.

Mallison, Jennifer. 2012. “Connecting in the Real World.” Devles Times, May 15.

Electronic Websites Citation

Electronic ASA citations aren’t difficult to format. ASA citation generator will make your task even easier, but since electronic sources are so widespread, it’s better to know how to cite them manually. Add author’s name or organization, then date and title. Specify the date of retrieval and put link into parenthesis.

Bergson, William. 2018. “Why We Deceive Each Other.” Retrieved March 16, 2019 (https://www.1111.html).

Story/Article From Anthology

When you’ve used only one story out of the entire anthology (or one chapter in a book), start with the name of the writer whose work you relied on. Then mention date, the title of story or chapter you’ve used, page range, the title of the anthology, editors, city/state as well as a publishing house.

Bates, Lyda. 1994. “Mending a Broken Heart.” Pp. 34-52 in Short Life Stories Collection, edited by C. Myers. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

PowerPoint Presentation Citation

For presentations in ASA format, mention authors’ names, date, title of presentation, place where it was presented and/or retrieval date and link.

Stephnson, Mark, and Cathleen Sommers. 2018. “How To Fake Being an Extrovert.” Presented at the 2018 SOIAE Conference, March 1, Denver, Colorado. Retrieved March 16, 2019 (http://docs.11111).

Movie Citation

Not all variations of ASA citation machine will be able to create good reference for a movie, so you should learn how to do that yourself. Mention last and first name of director, release year, title, format, place and studio.

Volkas, John. 2016. My Voice is a Killer. [DVD] Cleveland, Oxio: Alexandra Pictures.