How to Cite a Publisher's Imprint in APA Style?

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · May 17, 2015

Did you try the citation monster or Purdue OWL citation creator? Both offer APA.

rob4546, ADN, BSN, MSN · May 17, 2015

I can't give you a citation about the correct syntax because I never found one. I had to cite an old textbook for a paper written a few weeks ago with the same publishers. I searched for the book using the ISBN # on a few of the citation generators and each one spit out the same:

Lewis, S. (2011). Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (8th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier/Mosby

I used it in the paper and the ultra-APA instructor didn't comment on it but she did find problems with other references. Is it proof that this was correct? Not sure but the outcome was what I wanted. If you don't get any other input on this then I would use it this way. I will be watching, maybe someone else will have a better response.

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · May 17, 2015

Citation Machine: APA format citation generator for others

Try this citation creator. Also look in the front of the text where they list the library of congress citation including publisher. This will list if it's Elseiver or Elseiver/Mosby. This was my go to when having issues citing

SeattleJess · May 17, 2015

I can't give you a citation about the correct syntax because I never found one. I had to cite an old textbook for a paper written a few weeks ago with the same publishers. I searched for the book using the ISBN # on a few of the citation generators and each one spit out the same:
Lewis, S. (2011). Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (8th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier/Mosby
I used it in the paper and the ultra-APA instructor didn't comment on it but she did find problems with other references. Is it proof that this was correct? Not sure but the outcome was what I wanted. If you don't get any other input on this then I would use it this way. I will be watching, maybe someone else will have a better response.

Thank you, experience is golden! I really appreciate your help! The Library of Congress site says "copyright by Mosby, Inc. an affiliate of Elsevier, Inc." So I'm thinking I'll try the citation creators and go with Elsevier/Mosby if they smile on that.

SeattleJess · May 17, 2015

Citation Machine: APA format citation generator for others
Try this citation creator. Also look in the front of the text where they list the library of congress citation including publisher. This will list if it's Elseiver or Elseiver/Mosby. This was my go to when having issues citing

The problem is, the citation generated depends on what you input. Put just Elsevier, that's what comes out. Put Mosby and Elsevier, and Mosby/Elsevier comes out. Put Elsevier and Mosby, then Elsevier/Mosby comes out. GIGO! And I don't know enough to know how to inpute. I'm leaning toward Elsevier/Mosby based on what rob4546 said but then again, the back of my Mosby's dictionary says Mosby/Elsevier.

SeattleJess · May 17, 2015

Did you try the citation monster or Purdue OWL citation creator? Both offer APA.

Yes, tried both but the answer totally depends on what you put in... and I don't know whether to put in a trade name of the publisher.

chare · May 17, 2015

Who is listed as the publisher in the text? If it is listed as either Mosby or Mosby Elsevier, I would cite it as St. Louis, MO: Mosby. I base this on the following two bullet points found on p. 187 of the 6th ed. APA:

Give the name of the publisher in as brief a form as is intelligible...
If two or more publisher locations are given in the book, give the location listed first or, if specified, the location of the publisher's home office.

Good luck!

SeattleJess · May 17, 2015

Who is listed as the publisher in the text? If it is listed as either Mosby or Mosby Elsevier, I would cite it as St. Louis, MO: Mosby. I base this on the following two bullet points found on p. 187 of the 6th ed. APA:
Give the name of the publisher in as brief a form as is intelligible...
If two or more publisher locations are given in the book, give the location listed first or, if specified, the location of the publisher's home office.
Good luck!

Thank you so much! Since the only location cited is St. Louis MO, I'm okay going with that. Since Elsevier is more brief (briefer?) than Elsevier/Mosby, I'm leaning toward just plain ol' Elsevier. This seems like such a stupid waste of time. If I ever DID publish anything in an APA journal, there would be minions to fine tune little deals like this.

rob4546, ADN, BSN, MSN · May 17, 2015

Thank you so much! Since the only location cited is St. Louis MO, I'm okay going with that. Since Elsevier is more brief (briefer?) than Elsevier/Mosby, I'm leaning toward just plain ol' Elsevier. This seems like such a stupid waste of time. If I ever DID publish anything in an APA journal, there would be minions to fine tune little deals like this.

I think you are correct, just using Elsevier would be the simplest form and still a true statement. Now if I could get my minions to write the paper as well I would have much more free time!!!

chare · May 17, 2015

Thank you so much! Since the only location cited is St. Louis MO, I'm okay going with that. Since Elsevier is more brief (briefer?) than Elsevier/Mosby, I'm leaning toward just plain ol' Elsevier. This seems like such a stupid waste of time. If I ever DID publish anything in an APA journal, there would be minions to fine tune little deals like this.

Mosby is an imprint of Elsevier. If Mosby is listed as the publisher (either as Mosby or Mosby/Elsevier), then I would list Mosby as the publisher.

If you would tell us which text you are referring to, we would be better able to advise you.

grantdl · Feb 26, 2016

According to http://isites.harvard.edu/ you list only the imprint:

[h=4]Publisher's imprint[/h]In MLA style, use a hyphen to separate information about the imprint from information about the publisher. In APA style, include information only about the imprint.