On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:05:14 -0800, Beth Benoit wrote:
>How does one cite an author in the reference section if he/she is royalty?

I thought that some royal person might have written something
for the American Psychologist but a search of PsycInfo turns
up nothing.  More below.

> I have a student who is writing a paper about Queen Noor, from a
>developmental standpoint.  My student is using her autobiography (called *Leap
>of Faith)*, as a reference, and the author is listed in the book as "Queen
>Noor."  Her real name is "Noor Al-Hussein" (or, of course, Lisa Najeeb
>Halaby).  

I think you would get an argument about her "real name" being
Lisa Najeeb Halaby.  According to the Wikipedia entry on Queen
Noor, when she converted to Islam she changed Lisa to Noor.
I don't know about the Halaby part. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor
(a reference for "Leap of Faith" is provided near the bottom of
the webpage in what appears to be APA style, sort of).

>How to cite in the Reference section?
>
>Noor, Q.
>Noor, A.
>Al-Hussein, N.
>Halaby, L. N. (a.k.a. Noor, Q.)
>???
>None of these sounds correct, but Al-Hussein, N. seems the most valid.  Yet
>she didn't cite herself that way in her book.  Very strange...

This is probably something that one of the copy editors at the www.apastyle.org 
site will have to answer but I can give you examples of what software
that tries to apply APA style to references "thinks" it might be.  At
NYU the CSA Illumina (by Proquest) interface is used and though one
can access PsycInfo directly, the interface allows searchs across different
databases.  Searching for "Queen Noor" anywhere in the text turns up 
a few hits and the QuickBib software will try to format reference 
according to APA 6th edition. One should be caution in accepting
results from software but it produced the following references:

Hussein, q. (1984). Peace efforts: Principles versus practices. (address of her 
   majesty queen noor al hussein, the hashemite kingdom of jordan.) given at 
the 
  conference on U.S.-arab relations: The current political and social 
dimensions ... 
  chicago ... 1984 Retrieved from www.csa.com 

r, Q. o. J. (2004). Leap of faith: Memoirs of an unexpected life / queen noor. 
   paperback ed. London: Phoenix. Retrieved from www.csa.com 

The "r, Q. o. J." above probably refers to the "Royal Queen, of Jordan".

Noor, Q. o. J. (2000). Foreword: The face of daunting challenges. In J. W. 
   Wright Jr, & L. Drake eds (Eds.), Economic and political impediments to 
   middle east peace: Critical questions and alternative scenarios (pp. 
xix-xxiii). 
   Foreword by Queen Noor of Jordan. International Political Economy Series. 
   New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan Press. Retrieved from 
www.csa.com

Finally, an article in the Journal "Violence Against Women" cite a statement
by Queen Noor on the website of one of the organizations she is involved in
and used the following format:

Queen Noor, H.M. (1999). Women press releases [Online}. Available:
  Http://www.accesme.com/QNoorjo/main/honorcrm.htm 

So, take your pick.  

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]




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