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APA Style (7th Edition) Guide: Archival Documents

This guide will help you cite your documents in using the APA 7th ed. publication manula.

Archival Documents

This guide offers a few examples of archival document references, however a more complete list of examples is available online in the Archival Documents and Collections section of the APA Style website.

Here the interviewee is placed as the author and the interviewer is placed in the description.

Example: recorded interview in archive

Smith, M. B. (1989, August 12). Interview by C. A. Kiesler [Tape recording]. President’s Oral History

Project, American Psychological Association, APA Archives, Washington, DC, United States.

Parenthetical citation

(Smith, 1989)

Narrative citation

Smith (1989)

Here a brief description of the photograph is placed in brackets when a title is not available.

If no author is available, then the brief description of the photograph in brackets is placed as the author.

Example: photo with no author or title

[Photographs of Robert M. Yerkes]. (ca. 1917–1954). Robert Mearns Yerkes Papers (Box 137, Folder 2292), Manuscripts and

Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, United States.

Parenthetical citation

([Photographs of Robert M. Yerkes], ca. 1917–1954)

Narrative citation

[Photographs of Robert M. Yerkes] (ca. 1917–1954)