Your PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology Textbook

Introduction to Psychology

OpenStax Texbooks

In an effort to reduce textbook costs to our students, the Department of Social Sciences has adopted this textbook published by OpenStax.

"OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education. Our first open source college textbook was published in 2012 and has since scaled to more than 20 books used by hundreds of thousands of students across the globe. Through these partnerships and our alliance with other educational resource companies, OpenStax is breaking down the most common barriers to learning and empowering students and instructors to succeed."

Citing Our Textbook

Citations come in two forms...in text and in the "References" according to APA guidelines.

In Text Citations

When you use an idea or quote from the textbook you should include an in-text citation right in the paragraph you are writing.  You would cite the author and the year.  For our textbook the author is "OpenStax College" and the year is "2014".

So an in text citation would look like...

"According to OpenStax College (2014)...."

References

At the end of your paper, on a new page, with "References" across the top...you would cite the APA formatted citation of the textbook.

OpenStax College (2014). Introduction to Psychology. OpenStax College.

Links

Introduction to Psychology is available in a number of formats for zero or very minimal cost.

• Click HERE to visit the main page for the textbook.
  • This site contains links to view this book ONLINE, as a FREE PDF, as a $4.99 eBook for iPad, and print versions through Amazon
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