%0 Journal Article %T Fixed Point Theorems via Auxiliary Functions %A Erdal Karap nar %A Peyman Salimi %J Journal of Applied Mathematics %D 2012 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2012/792174 %X We prove new fixed point theorems in the framework of partially ordered metric spaces. The main result is an extension and a generalization of many existing results in the literature. An example is also considered to illustrate the main result. %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/2012/792174/