journals and videos. Article and chapter titles are not italicised or put in quotation marks. Volume numbers are italicised but issue numbers are not. Capitalisation in APA style is very specific. For references
the following general rules apply: Book titles – capitalise the first letter of the first word of the title
and the first letter of the first word after a colon. e.g. Ageing and aged care in Australia and Brave new brain: Conquering mental illness in the era of the genome. Article
chapter or section titles – capitalise the first letter of the first word of the title
and the first letter of the first word after a colon. e.g. Personal resilience as a strategy for surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: A literature review. Pronouns
acronyms and abbreviations that are normally capitalised should be capitalised in the reference list and citations. See examples on the following pages for each reference type. For further information see section 4.22 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition).
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