How to cite a poem apa 7th edition

If you refer to information from an image, chart, table or graph, but do not reproduce it in your paper, create a citation both in-text and on your Reference list. If the information is part of another format, for example a book, cite the work it came from. If you are only making a passing reference to a well known image, you would not have to cite it, e.g. describing someone as having a Mona Lisa smile.

Image from a Website 

Artist Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Title of the artwork [Description]. Website Name. URL

Reference List Example:

Irish, J. (2019). Sequoia national park [Photograph]. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/61-national-parks-photos/#/giant-tree-trail-sequoia-national-park.jpg

In-Text Paraphrase:

(Author, Year)

Example: (Irish, 2019)

In-Text Quote:

(Author, Year)

Example: (Irish, 2019)

Note: This online image has no page numbers, paragraph numbers or section headings so this information is left out of the in-text citation.

If you want to cite a poem using the APA style, include your quote from a poem in quotation marks if it's less than 40 words, and use forward slashes to indicate line breaks. To cite a longer passage, begin the quote on a new line and indent it to create a block quotation. For your in-text citation, include the author's name, year of publication, and page number, preceded by the letter "p." When it comes to the title, capitalize all major words, place short titles in quotes, and italicize longer titles. To learn how to include your citation in the works cited section of your essay, keep reading!

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American Psychological Association style offers several ways to cite a poem, depending on whether the source is the Web, an anthology or a poet collection.

Citations on Reference Page

For a poem retrieved from an anthology, include poet's name, anthology publication year, poem title, editors' names, anthology name in italics, page numbers, publishing city and publisher name in the following format:

Cleveland, J. (1972). To the state of love, or the senses festival. In H. Gardner (Ed.), The metaphysical poets (pp. 218-220). Harmonsworth: Penguin.

For a poem retrieved from a poet collection, include poet's name, year of publication, name of collection, collection edition, publishing city and publisher in the following format:

Hardy, T. (1930). The collected poems of Thomas Hardy (4th ed.). London: Macmillan.

For a poem retrieved from the Web, include poet's name, year of publication, poem title, retrieval date and web address in the following format:

Poe, E., A. (1849). Annabel Lee. Retrieved, October 14, 2014, from http://poestories.com/read/annabellee

For all three types, indent all lines after the first in the citation.

In-Text Citations

In-text citations consist of the poet's last name and year of publication if it is from an online source. If it is from an anthology or collection, also include page numbers. This information is included in parentheses after the quote.

For example, cite a poem from the Web as follows:

"With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me," (Poe, 1849).

Cite a poem retrieved from a collection or anthology as:

"All things did with his Love conspire," (Behn, 2001, p. 367).

If the name of the poet is stated in your sentence, include the year and page number, if necessary, in the parentheses.

Use of the Internet for student reading and research has made composing essays easier. However, you may be left with questions as you begin composing your paper, such as how you are expected to cite poetry found online, according to the American Psychological Association style guide.

References Page Citations

For the References page, include the author's name, editor if available, publication year in parentheses, name of the poem, name of the site the poem is on in italics, date the poem was retrieved and the Web address from which it was retrieved. A citation from poet William Blake's work "The Tyger" would read:

Blake, William (1794). The Tyger. The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved on 04 June 2013 from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172943

In this example, no editor name was available, so you would put "The Poetry Foundation" in italics.

In the event that the poem has an unknown author, use the title of the poem for in-text citations and on your References page.

In-Text Citations

For poems found on the Internet, in-text citations follow the same rules as you would use for the author of a printed book or other text. Use quotation marks around the relevant quote, followed by the author's last name and the publication year in parentheses. For "The Tyger," the in-text citation would read:

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