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Referencing with APA: Qu'ran

Quotations

To be made up of:
 
Author/editor
Year of publication (in round brackets)
Title (in italics)
Edition (only include the edition number if it is not the first edition)
Place of publication: publisher
 
In-text citation for a quote (less than 40 words):
 
Jeff Guy's book View Across the River (2002) is both a biography of the Bishop's daughter, Harriette Emily Colenso, and a broad, comprehensive narrative detailing how the Colenso family and "their African allies, sought to stop a fine nation being trampled out of existence..."(p. 13).
 
In-text citation for a block quote (40 words or more):
 
There are two inherent difficulties in Guy's approach.  The first he addresses himself:
... it remains difficult for historians of women in Empire, to avoid stereotyping and trivializing their subjects, as, for example, the devoted female missionary, the friend of the natives, the dedicated crusader for justice, or the intrepid traveler in the tropics(2002, p.x).

Reference list:

Guy, J. (2002). The view across the river: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu struggle against imperialism. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia.