FAQS

According to the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020) multilingual students have the unique opportunity to read and potentially use sources in different languages than the language they are writing in. For example, if you understand both English and French, you can write your paper in English but include both English and French sources in your paper. Anytime you translate a passage from one language into another, this is always considered a paraphrase since it is based on your interpretation of the original work.

For the reference entry you should "...provide the author, date, title, and source of the work in the original language as well as a translation of the title in square brackets after the title and before the period" (APA, 2020, p. 301). For example:

Minsky, H. P. (2019). Los factores financieros en la teoría económica del capitalismo [Financial factors in the economics of capitalism]. Trimestre Económico, 86(344), 1071–1092. https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v86i344.889

For the in-text citation, all that is required is the author's last name and the source's date of publication. However, you may wish to include a page number to make the information easier for your reader to find (APA, 2020). For example:

(Minsky, 2019). or (Minsky, 2019, p. 7).

For more information, please visit the APA Style Blog post Lost in Translation: Citing Your Own Translations in APA Style. While this post is from the 6th Edition APA Style Blog, please note that it is still accurate according to the APA 7th Edition.

For additional guidance on citing translated works, please visit the APA's How to Cite Translated Works webpage.

References

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000