APA 7
APA 7th Edition is the most commonly used referencing style here at the University of Portsmouth. Below you will find general guidance on how to reference and cite using APA 7th Edition, as well as examples for the specific sources you are likely to use in your assignments.
Your department or lecturer may prefer you to reference sources differently from the guidance given here. Always follow the requirements of your department or lecturer.
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You should reference translated articles in the language in which the translation was published, using the standard format. For example, if a French language article was translated into English and you read that English version, this is what you would reference.
You should credit the translator in your reference if they are known, by adding their name in round brackets after the title of the article, along with the word Trans.
You also need to provide two dates; the year the translated work was published, and the year the original was published. If the two dates are the same, you can omit this.
Reference
Author, Initials. (Year of Publication). Title of article (Initials, Author, Trans.). Title of Journal, Volume number(Issue number), start and end page numbers. https://doi.org/ or URL (Original work published Year)
Piaget, J. (1972). Intellectual evolution from adolescence to adulthood (J. Bliss & H. Furth, Trans.). Human Development, 15(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1159/000271225 (Original work published 1970)
In-text Citation
In-text citations for translated works require both the initial and translated publication dates, in numerical order.
For information about the use of page numbers within in-text citations, please see our guidance here.
Piaget (1970/1972) suggested that...
It can be shown that... (Piaget, 1970/1972).