I'm using APA style. I need to provide a reference citation for an author who uses a pseudonym and there are two dates: the original date of publication and the reprint date. Do I use both names and both dates? One of each? How do I choose?

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I'm using APA style. I need to provide a reference citation for an author who uses a pseudonym and there are two dates: the original date of publication and the reprint date.  Do I use both names and both dates? One of each? How do I choose?

anonymous · Answer

First of all, what type of reference is it (an article, book, webpage, etc.)?

To be safe, I think you should reference the name that is on the document that you have, for that is the way the author wanted to be credited.

What version of the document do you actually have, the original or the reprint? Use the date for the version of the document that you have.

anonymous · Answer

Original date of publication. You always use the original date. You also use the authors pseudonym. I use APA 5th, myself. I'm a Ph.D, by the way, so I have done a lot of referencing over the years.

anonymous · Answer

While I would agree that it is always best to trace back your source it its original, it is better to cite the version of the document that you are actually referencing otherwise some issues may arise (depending on the type of reference of course) such as the page numbers of the source you are using not matching with the page numbers of the original text if you point readers to that text by citing the original date.

When you are citing something in your references, it is a way for others to read your work and then look at the sources you used to derive the ideas you wrote about. If you cite something that you did not use (e.g., the original and not the reprint) and if there was some minor change between versions, then you dont want to be held accountable for that.

jagatuba · Answer

English translation of an article or chapter in an edited book, volume in a multivolume work, or republished work:

Freud, S. (1961). The ego and the id. In J. Strachey (Ed. & Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol.19, pp. 3-66). London, England: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1923) 

In text, use the following parenthetical citation: (Freud, 1923/1961)
-APA Manual

This is an all-encompassing example, so of course you will only use the elements that you need (e.i. don't use: In J. Stranchey (Ed. & Trans.) if it is not and edited or translated work).