The third component is the title. Depending on what you are citing, your title will be formatted differently.
APA requires you to only capitalize certain words in a title. You should capitalize the following:
APA requires you to italicize the titles of stand-alone works:
If you are citing something that is part of a bigger work, you do not italicize the titles:
If a title ends with a non-period punctuation mark (such as a question mark or an exclamation mark), use that as the ending punctuation without adding a period.
If the title uses an em dash instead of colons for a subtitle distinction, preserve those.
Format Clarification
If the information you are citing is not a routine format, use square brackets after the title to clarify. Common examples include:
Edition/Volume
Clarification For some books, you will need to add the edition or the volume used after the title, in parentheses.
In very rare cases, you may be using a source without a specific title. This may be something like a social media post, untitled artwork, or a Google map. In the title component, include a description in brackets; try to include the medium in the description if possible.
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