Hi Paul,  hope your well, and my former colleagues at WSU.  For what it's worth, I used the following format in one of my papers with Peter Cornish, published in :

APHA (2005) Standard methods for the examination of water and waste water, 21st edn. American Public Health Association, Washington, DC

I don't recall any comments about this wording, but obviously it's generic, not specific to a particular method.

cheers

Murray

sir, you cite APHA as like:  

APHA. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater, 21sted. Washington, DC, New York: American Public Health Association; 2005.

or 

APHA (2005) Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater, 21st edn. American Public Health Association,

Washington, DC

or 

American Public Health Association (APHA) (2005) Standard method for examination of water and wastewater, 21st edn. APHA, AWWA, WPCF, Washington

Paul

There are many examples in the Rayment and Lyons book "Soil Chemical Methods - Australasia" published by CSIRO Publishing and dated 2011.

Cheers

Thanks George I should have known.

I have used the following as suggested by Prof

APHA  (2005)  Standard methods for the examination of water and waste water, 21st edn. American Public Health Association, Washington, DC

Thanks everyone

Any standard citation available for water temperature measurement using mercury thermometer?

any standard method available for nitrogen and phosphorus uptake by microalgae from wastewater?

Dear all,

Do we need to put the specific section for APHA Standard Method?

I would rather cite all three joint publishers : APHA-AWWA-WEF

I suggest the section, edition and all three publishers

what number of pages

Dear all, what about the pages cited from the book? Will those pages not cited along as usual with journal citation

Thanks Olowe

I have noticed some would cite it like this:

APHA, Standard Methods for the Examination of Wastewater,

America Public Health Association, Washington, DC, USA,

20th edition, 2003.

Example is given below

APHA (1998) Standard Methods for the examination of water and waste water American Public Health Association. 874pp.

Thanks Frederick, HAPPY NEW

Search for the Method in Standard Methods Website https://www.standardmethods.org/ then you will get Suggested Citation on the Right Side Panel. Example of Citation for Method 2540 and 2710 are as follows. Note the Difference in DOI. ScreenShot of Website is Attached.

“2540 SOLIDS (2017)”, Standard Methods For the Examination of Water and Wastewater

DOI: 10.2105/SMWW.2882.030

“2710 TESTS ON SLUDGES (2017)”, Standard Methods For the Examination of Water and Wastewater

DOI: 10.2105/SMWW.2882.035

I think this is the right format:

APHA (1998) Standard Methods for the examination of water and waste water. American Public Health Association. 874pp.

Sudhanshu Kumar answer was so informative....tnk u

Thank you Shah

Thank you @Nazeesh Shah @Paul Milham .

In my opinion, while citing any method from APHA, method number should be mentioned else it will be understood that you have cited the whole series of Standard Methods.

Agreed!

It's a late response, but I figured it now after struggling with the same challenge. How citing this book is dependent on the edition, assuming 2012 for now. It is generally accepted to cite this book as "APHA, 2012" in the text, although there are two more contributors/authors: AWWA, WEF. The editors are:

Rice, Eugene W.

Baird, a B.

Eaton, Andrew D.

Clesceri, Lenore S.

For the bibliography, it depends on which style you are using. These are other details you should input on Mendeley:

City: Washington, DC.

Edition: 22

Publisher: American Public Health Association

ISBN: 9780875530130

Hope you find it helpful :)

Informative thread.

Thanks dear Mirzaei for the answer. It is very helpful and informative.

Thanks Mirzaei, Paul

Thank you Hossein Zarei, Georges M. Kasay, and Paul Milham for your recommendations and kind words.

APH.A (American Public Health Association). (2003). Standard methods for examination of water and waste water.23th Ed.Washington DC, USA.

Thank you Atheer

It is very helpful.

APA Citation (style guide)

Baird, R., & Bridgewater, L. (2017). Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. 23rd edition. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association.