Page references in APA style in book review of a single work by one author?

Question

I'm enrolled in an internship to finish my journalism degree, and there are two books I'll be reading in addition to my internship itself. I have to write a review of each book, in APA style, and quite frankly, I'm clueless about formatting in APA. I haven't done writing requiring APA style in more than 10 years--I've been writing and editing for a newspaper instead--and I haven't yet found any info on how to document page references when no outside works are included in the review. I'm just needing to figure out the style I need to use for page references within the book, and any other formatting points for this paper. The first paper is done except for the formatting itself, and I need to send this to my professor by tomorrow morning. Can anyone help??

It's just the book itself that I'm having to review and summarize, the book "What Color Is Your Parachute?" All I'm doing within the text of my paper is referencing page numbers within the book, not referring to other books or journals.

In fact, I've got printouts from the Purdue website that I've been poring over for some time, but it says nothing about citing page numbers within a book review or similar paper using only a single source. This book is my only source, since the paper is a summary and review of the book. I'm trying to figure out how to notate the page numbers corresponding to points within the text of the paper.

Would it be correct in this instance to put, for example, (p. 1), or whatever the page number in question is?

Answer 1

Here is Purdues APA style page.. looks to me like All the referrences go a single page. Looks like JDugg already listed this ..

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

"Create your list of references on its own page after the last page of your text. Center the title References one inch from the top of the page. Double space. Alphabetize the list of references by the last name of the authors. If the work has no author or editor, alphabetize the work by the first word of the title (excluding A, An, or The)."

Which for a single referrence doesn't help much but I would think the page and paragraph would suffice.

Another source that might help
http://apastyle.apa.org/

and for book reveiws
http://apastyle.apa.org/tipweek112601.html
How to referrence a book review


Been years for me to.

They do show a sample.

Answer 2

In a multi-source research paper, for parenthetical citations you would do (author last name, date, p.#). I would guess that you only need the page number then. For a running head, use an abbreviated version of the title followed by a page number (as opposed to your last name for MLA formatting). Other formatting points I can't see being very applicable to a book review (cover page, abstract, etc.). I really like Purdue's online writing lab:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

I think that would work (p. 1). Can you ask the professor first thing in the morning?