Examples of References in APA Format

In the text of the paper, refer to an article this way:

Allbritton and Gerrig (1991) argued that the mental representation of a narrative text includes readers’ responses to the events of the text. In other work, they related many well-known cognitive psychological phenomena to other specific aspects of narrative comprehension (Gerrig & Allbritton, 1990).

This paragraph changes topics abruptly, and that is something you should not do when you are writing. Metaphors have been compared to schemas in the way that they function in comprehension (Allbritton, 1995; Allbritton, McKoon, & Gerrig, 1995).

This is what the references section for this “paper” would look like:

References

Allbritton, D. W. (1995). When metaphors function as schemas: Some cognitive effects of conceptual metaphors. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10, 33-46.

Allbritton, D. W., & Gerrig, R. J. (1991). Participatory responses in prose understanding. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 603-626.

Allbritton, D. W., McKoon, G., & Gerrig, R. J. (1995). Metaphor-based schemas and text representations: Making connections through conceptual metaphors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21 (3), 612-625.

Gerrig, R. J., & Allbritton, D. W. (1993). The construction of literary character: A view from cognitive psychology. In J. V. Knapp, (Ed.), Literary Character (pp. 380-391). Boston: University Press of America.