Guide: How to cite a Dissertation in APA style

Guide: How to cite a Dissertation in APA style

Cite A Dissertation in APA style

Ads keep us free. Upgrade to remove.

Use the following template to cite a dissertation using the APA citation style. For help with other source types, like books, PDFs, or websites, check out our other guides. To have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for you, try our free citation generator.

Key:

Pink text = information that you will need to find from the source.
Black text = text required by the APA style.

Reference list

Place this part in your bibliography or reference list at the end of your assignment.

Template:

Author Surname, Author Initial. (Year Published). Title (Level). Institution Name.

Example:

Ossola, A. (2010). The Medias Effect on Womens Body Image. Hamilton College. Recuperato 29 April 2015, da http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/the-medias-effect-on-womens-body-image

In-text citation

Place this part right after the quote or reference to the source in your assignment.

Template

(Author Surname, Year Published)

Example

“When all you see is a body type that only two percent of the population has, it’s difficult to remember what’s real and what’s reasonable to expect of yourself and everyone else.” (Ossola, 2010)

Popular APA Citation Guides


Other APA Citation Guides

Join Us!

Save Time and Improve Your Marks with Cite This For Me

10,587 students joined last month!!

  • ✔ Save your bibliographies for longer
  • ✔ Quick and accurate citation program
  • ✔ Save time when referencing
  • ✔ Make your student life easy and fun
  • ✔ Use plagiarism checker
  • ✔ Create and edit multiple bibliographies
Join
http://www.citethisforme.com/guides/apa-it/how-to-cite-a-dissertation
www.citethisforme.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-29
20517
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:XIDPD5FXV6YYNQRFNTKQTREAPROREJMA
<urn:uuid:83cb99ec-3f2f-48e8-b83d-3e587b9fdafc>
2020-07-13T16:54:15Z
99.84.178.32
text/html
sha1:R6S4LCMMGAWN7NFKLLDZKSR4MSCDPLFE
<urn:uuid:91ccd869-923c-457b-99ee-dae2b84e1c1f>
http://www.citethisforme.com/guides/apa-it/how-to-cite-a-dissertation
response
<urn:uuid:41379350-1b4d-4a9b-a206-735e4c296b1d>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-29
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-149.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/