This is the basic template for periodical citations. It can be found on p. 316, ch. 10 of the APA manual.
Author, A.A., & Author, B.B. (Date). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Issue number, page numbers. DOI or URL
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Journal article, one author.
Houseknecht, S. K. (1979). Childlessness and marital adjustment. Journal of Marriage
and the Family, 41(2), 259-265.
Journal article, with DOI assigned, one author.
If a journal includes a DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, it must be included in the reference. When a DOI has not been assigned and the reference is retrieved online, provide the URL or the exact URL if available. If the URL is not available, use the journal home page URL. You do not need to include a retrieval date.
Wegar, K. (2000). Adoption, family ideology, and social stigma: Bias in community
attitudes, adoption research, and practice. Family Relations, 49(4), 363-370.
doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00363.x
Journal article with DOI assigned, advance online publication, one author. If you are citing an advance release version of the article, insert Advance online publication before the retrieval statement or DOI. (See APA manual (7th ed.), p. 318, #7).
Cox, C. (2006). An analysis of the impact of federated search products on library instruction using the ACRL standards. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 6(3), 253-267. Advance online publication. doi:10.1212/s00222-009-0987-6
At times, you may reference authors with the same last name. If different authors have the same last name, but different first initials, they go in alphabetical order by first initial. See Ch. 9 of the APA manual for examples.
Chen, C. (2000).
Chen, N. (1989).
Journal article with DOI assigned, two or more authors
Wimmer, J. S., Vonk, M. E., & Bordnick, P. (2009). A preliminary investigation of the
effectiveness of attachment therapy for adopted children with reactive attachment
disorder. Child Adolescence Social Work Journal, 26(4), 351-360.
doi:10.1007/s10560-009-0179-8
Journal article with no DOI, retrieved from a non-database URL. If there is no DOI number, then include the URL for open-access journals when available. This example is found in Chapter 10, p. 317 of the 7th ed. APA manual.
| Ahmann, E., Tuttle, L.J., Saviet, M. & Wright, S.D. (2018). A descriptive review of ADHD coaching research: implications for college students. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 31(1), 17-39. https://www.ahead.org/professional-resources/publications/jped/archived-jped-volume-31 |
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Journal article with between two to 20 authors- See Ch. 9.8 for an example
- Use an ampersand before the final author's name: Author, A.A., Author, B.B., & Author, C.C.
Journal article with more than 21 authors- See Ch. 10.4 for an example (p. 317).
- Include the first 19 authors' names, insert an ellipsis but no ampersand, and then add the final author's name
Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., Gandin, L., Iredell, M., Saha, S., White, G., Woollen, J., Zhu, Y., Chelliiah, M., Ebisuzaki, W., Higgins, W., Janowiak, J., Mo, K.C., Ropelewaski, C., Wang, J., Leetmaa, A., ... Joseph, D. (1996). The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(3), 437-471. http://doi.org/fg6rf9
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Journal article, advance online publication. See Ch. 10.7, p. 318 for the example.
Huesstegge, S.M., Raettig, T., & Huesstegge, L. (2019). Are face-incongruent voices harder to process? Effects of face-voice gender incongruency on basic cognitive information processing. Experimental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a00040
Journal article, in press. See Ch. 10.8, p. 318 for the example.
Pachur, T. & Scheibehenne, B. (in press). Unpacking buyer-seller differences in valuation from experience: a cognitive modeling approach. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
NOTE: When items are in pre-publication, you can't have issues or page numbers; those haven't been set yet. You will need to check and see when the article has been published, and then change the reference entry when you have a complete citation.
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Two articles by same author published in same year
In order to avoid confusion when using references by the same author and published in the same year, you need to create clarity. References with only a year precede those with more specific dates, and specific dates are placed in chronological order. The following example is found on p. 305 of the 7th ed. of the APA manual.
Azikiwe, H., & Bello, A. (2020a).
Azikiwe, H., & Bello, A. (2020b, March 26).
Azikiwe, H., & Bello, A. (2020c, April 2).
Journal article, published in another language. The example can be found in Ch. 10.9, on pg. 318 in the 7th ed. of the APA manual.
Chaves-Morillo, V., Gomez Calero, C., Fernandez-Munoz, J.J., Toledano-Munoz, A., Fernandez-Huete, J., Martinez-Monge, N., Palacios-Cena, D., & Penacoba-Puente, C. (2018). La ansomia neurosensorial: Relacion entre subtipo, tiempo de reconocimiento y edad [Sensorineural ansomia; Relationship between subtype, recognition time, and age]. Clinica y Salud, 28(3), 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clysa.2017.04.002
NOTE: When an article is in a different language than the rest of your paper, include a translation of the article title in square brackets.
Journal without a DOI, from most academic research databases. Cite like a regular article, and there is no need to include the database name or URL.
(Credit: Some of the examples on this page were taken from: http://nova.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=114919&sid=992736)