Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book. Publisher. https://doi.org/XXXXXX
Examples
George, M. W. (2008). The elements of library research: What every student needs to know. Princeton University Press.
(George, 2008) (in-text citation)
Kleiser, G. (2008). Fifteen thousand useful phrases. Funk & Wagnalls; Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18362 (Original work published 1917)
(Kleiser, 1917/2008) (in-text citation)
Samanez-Larkin, G. R. (Ed.). (2019). The aging brain: Functional adaptation across adulthood. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000143-000
(Samanez-Larkin, 2019) (in-text citation)
Note: Your References list should list the entire work. In-text citations may (but don't always) cite specific pages. Source: Publication Manual 8.13, p. 264 (not included in APA Style website).
When citing in-text, it can be difficult if your eBook does not have a page number (most PDF books do). In this case, try to get as specific as possible by mentioning chapter, section, and paragraph numbers.
One of the author's main points is that "people don't rise from nothing" (Gladwell, 2008, Chapter 1, Section 2, para. 5).(example of in-text citation to a specific section of book).
Source: Publication Manual, 10.2 (examples 20-26); Book References [APA Style]
Example: Encyclopedia of Social Work
Source: Publication Manual 10.3, template for edited book chapter in reference works, p. 326). Don't use URL for WKU database because non-WKU user can't follow this URL to retrieve reference.
Woolever & Kelly (2019) (in-text citation)
Example: DSM-5
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Anxiety disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm05
American Psychiatric Association, 2013 (in-text citation)
Source: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/diagnostic-manual-references#3