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Visit our Writing & Citation library guide for core support resources.  For help citing common nursing-specific sources, please see the citation guidelines below. 

Lippincott Advisor: 

• Articles in Lippincott Advisor are available only in that database and have information that changes over time.  In your references list, format Lippincott Advisor articles like periodical articles.  Do not italicize the database name if it appears in text. 
• Use the year of the last update in the date element.
• Include a retrieval date because the content is designed to change over time and versions of the page are not archived.

Citation example for content retrieved from Lippincott Advisor:

References Page

Format:
Title of article. (Year, Month Date of latest update). Lippincott Advisor. Retrieved Date, from URL

Example:
Alopecia. (2020, July 10). Lippincott Advisor. Retrieved September 24, 2021, from https://advisor.lww.com/
         lna/document.do?bid=4&did=909550

In-Text Citations

Format: ("First word or two of article title," Year)

Example: ("Alopecia," 2019)

The Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) publishes review books for RN and PN. List the contributers as the authors of the book. This citation is the same for a paper copy of the book and an ebook. 

Refer to the APA Style website for more information on citing the DSM.

Complete work: 

References Page:

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

In-Text Citation:
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)

Individual chapters: 

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://doi-org.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

In-Text Citation:
(American Psychiatric Association, 2022)

Using APA in discussion posts is very similar to using APA in a paper.  Think of your discussion post as a short APA paper without a cover page.

You should cite each source that you read/used to inform your discussion post with both a brief in-text citation AND in an alphabetical list of references at the end of the post.  If you need help with formatting these citations, check out our citation examples here.