Data Sets, Software, and Tests

Note: Citations with more than one line of text should have a hanging indent of 1/2 inch or 5 spaces.

Important Elements:

• Author (last name, initials only for first & middle names)
• Date
• Title 
• Publisher/ Database
• URL or DOI

Data Set Template

Author, A.A. (2020). Title of data set (version 1.2) [Data set]. Publisher Name. DOI or URL

Template for Software and Mobile Apps

Author, A.A. (2020). Title of work (version 1.2) [Computer software]. Publisher. URL

Template for Test, Scales, and Invientories

Author, A.A. (2020). Title of the Test. Test Database Name. URL

Examples:

Data Set

Pew Research Center. (2018). American trends panel Wave 26 [Data set]. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-26/

Unpublished raw data

Oregon Youth Authority. (2011). Recidivism outcomes [Unpublished raw data]. 

Software

Borenstien, M., Hedges, L., Higgins, J., & Rothstein, H. (2014). Comprehensive meta-analysis (Version 3.3.070) [Computer software]. Biostatistics. https://meta-analysis.com/

Manual for test, scale, or inventory

Tellegen, A., & Ben-Porath, Y. S. (2011). Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF): Technical Manual. Pearson.

Test, scale, or inventory

Project Implicit. (n.d.) Gender-Science IAT. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Some examples courtesy of APA Publication Manual

•   Articles
•   Audio & Video
•   Books
•   Business Reports and Gray Literature
•  Dissertations & Theses
•   In-text Citation
•   Conference Sessions and Presentations
•    Web pages & Social Media
•    Data Sets, Software, and Tests

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