When referring to a book in an APA paper, how do I write this? Do I only write the book name, only include the authors, or both book name and authors? Do I italize the title?
This is what I'm trying to write...
The questions were created using the "book here"
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
In APA formatting (MLA, too), book titles are italicized or underlined. It looks to me that your sentence would include only the book's title, but the all the book's information would be included in your reference list at the end of the paper.
Use the links at the left on that webpage as a table of contents to find what you need.
Do you mean in the text or in the reference list? In-text, you use the author's name and the year of publication: (Brown, 2016). In the reference list, you use the author's name, the title of the work (including the name of the publication if it's an article in a journal, etc.), and the date. The name of the book or publication is italicized (or underlined). The title of an article is in quotation marks.
The book title is NOT listed in-text, only in the reference list. In-text, use only the author's name and the date of publication: (Lorant, 1968). In the reference list (and I will capitalize what should be italicized or underlined if we were using word-processing:
Lorant, S. (1968) THE GLORIOUS BURDEN. New York: Harper & Row
When referring to a book in an APA paper, you need to include both the book title and the authors' names. The title of the book should be italicized, which means that it should be in italics.
To properly cite a book in APA format within the text of your paper, you should put the author's name and the date of publication in parentheses. If you mention the author's name within your sentence, only include the publication date in parentheses. Here's an example of how you can write your sentence while citing the book correctly:
"The questions were created using the book called *Title of the Book* (Author's Last Name, Year)."
Make sure to replace "Title of the Book" with the actual title of the book you are referring to and replace "Author's Last Name" with the last name(s) of the author(s) of the book.