Does APA 7 include the place of publication for books?

No. APA 7 dropped the publisher’s location. Give only the publisher’s name, for example “Heinemann”, not “London: Heinemann”.

How do I cite an e-book in APA 7?

The same way as a print book. Add the DOI or a URL at the end if the e-book has one. You don’t need to say which device or platform you used (Kindle, Google Books and so on).

How do I show the edition of a book?

Put it in brackets straight after the title, not in italics, for example “Research design (5th ed.).” Only include it for editions after the first.

How do I cite one chapter from an edited book?

Cite the chapter, not the whole book. Give the chapter’s authors, year and title, then “In” followed by the editors’ names (initials first), “(Eds.)”, the book title in italics, the chapter’s page range in brackets, and the publisher.

How to Cite a Book in APA 7th Edition (Book, Edition, Chapter)

A book reference in APA 7 is short: author, year, title in italics, publisher. The details change a little for later editions, e-books and chapters in edited collections, and those are covered below.

Format

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the book: Subtitle in sentence case (Xth ed.). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxx

APABook

Achebe, C. (1958). Things fall apart. Heinemann.

In-text: (Achebe, 1958)

The parts, one by one

Author. Surname, then initials (Achebe, C.). Several authors are separated by commas, with an ampersand before the last.
Year. The year of the edition you used, in brackets.
Title. In italics and sentence case: capitalise the first word, the first word of a subtitle after a colon, and proper nouns. Things fall apart, not Things Fall Apart.
Edition. For any edition after the first, in brackets after the title and not in italics: (5th ed.).
Publisher. The name only, with no city. Leave out words like “Inc.” or “Ltd”. If the author and publisher are the same (common for reports from organisations), leave the publisher out.
DOI or URL. Only if the book has one, for example an academic e-book.

A later edition with two authors

APA5th edition, two authors

Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (5th ed.). SAGE Publications.

In-text: (Creswell & Creswell, 2018)

Note the sentence-case subtitle after the colon and the edition in brackets. In the text: (Creswell & Creswell, 2018).

A chapter in an edited book

When each chapter of a book is written by different people, cite the chapter you used:

Chapter in an edited book

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the chapter. In E. E. Editor (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. first–last). Publisher.

APAChapter in an edited book

Mbiti, I., & Weil, D. N. (2015). Mobile banking: The impact of M-Pesa in Kenya. In S. Edwards, S. Johnson, & D. N. Weil (Eds.), African successes, Volume III: Modernization and development (pp. 247–293). University of Chicago Press.

In-text: (Mbiti & Weil, 2015)

Editors’ names are written initials first (S. Edwards, not Edwards, S.). Use “(Ed.)” for one editor and “(Eds.)” for more than one. The chapter title is plain text; the book title is in italics.

A whole edited book

If you refer to an edited collection as a whole, the editors take the author position, followed by (Ed.) or (Eds.):

Edited book

Editor, A. A., & Editor, B. B. (Eds.). (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

In-text citations

Parenthetical: (Achebe, 1958) or, with a quotation, (Achebe, 1958, p. 45).
Narrative: Achebe (1958) describes…

If you read a newer printing of an old book, APA lets you show both dates: (Achebe, 1958/1994), with “(Original work published 1958)” at the end of the reference.

Common mistakes

Writing the book title in Title Case. APA uses sentence case for book titles.
Including the city of publication. That was APA 6; APA 7 leaves it out.
Citing the whole edited book when you used one chapter.
Putting “(5th ed.)” in italics or after the full stop.

How to cite a book in APA 7th edition