APA 7 Style: Citing Articles

  1. Journal Article with DOI
  2. Journal Article without DOI
  3. Journal Article with 20 or more authors
  4. Magazine Article – Print
  5. Magazine Article – Online
  6. News Article – Print
  7. News Article – Online
  8. Editorial or Letter to the Editor

Sample reference entry in APA formatted with a hanging indent.

Journal Article with DOI

The DOI or digital object identifier is an alphanumeric identifier (made up of letters and numbers) that is a persistent link to information on the Internet. It is located on the first page of an electronic journal article near the copyright notice. DOIs should be written as hyperlinks that start with or https://doi.org

In-Text Citation

(Herbst-Damm & Julik, 2005)

References

Article with Page Numbers

Author's Last Name, First Initial., & Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year of Publication). Article title. Title of Journal, Volume #(Issue #), page range. https://doi.org###

Example:

Herbst-Damm, K. L., & Julik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24(3), 225-229. https://doi:10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225a

Article with Article Number 

Author's Last Name, First Initial., & Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year of Publication). Article title. Title of Journal, Volume #(Issue#), Article (article number). URL

Example:

Jerrentrup, A., Mueller, T., Glowalla, U., Herder, M., Henrichs, N., Neubauer, A., & Schaefer, J. R. (2018). Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House.” PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0193972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193972

Notice:

  1. The article title is in sentence case capitalization (only first word, proper nouns, or first word after colon are capitalized); the journal title is in headline capitalization (all major words capitalized). 
  2. The DOI should not have a line break; start a new line if necessary. Do not end the DOI with a period.

Journal Article Without DOI

In-Text Citation

(Sillick & Schutte, 2006)

References

Author's Last Name, First Initial., & Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year of Publication). Article title. Title of Journal, Volume #(Issue#), page range. URL

Example:

Sillick, T. J., & Schutte, N. S. (2006). Emotional intelligence and self-esteem mediate between perceived early parental love and adult happiness. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 2(2), 38-48. http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap

Notice:

  1. The article title is in sentence case capitalization (only first word, proper nouns, or first word after colon are capitalized); the journal title is in headline capitalization (all major words capitalized). 
  2. The above article does not have a DOI (or digital object identifier); therefore, you must include the URL for the article. When a URL is too long to fit on one line, create a break where there is punctuation (period, slash, dash), with the punctuation beginning the next line. Do not end the URL with a period if it is not in the original.

Journal Article with 20 or More Authors

In-Text Citation

For a work with three authors or more, use the surname of the first author followed by et al.

(Terracciano et al., 2005)

References

For a work with up to 21 authors, list all authors' names in the references entry. Use an ampersand before last author's name.

For a work with more than 21 authors, list the first 20 authors and insert ellipses. After the ellipses, write the last author's name. Do not put an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name.

Author's Last Name, First Initial., Author's Last Name, First Initial., (list first twenty authors), . . . Final Author's Last Name, First Initial.  (Year of Publication). Article title. Title of Journal, Volume #, page range. https://doi: ###

Example:

Graham, M., Ford, K., McKernan, B., Ross, N., Stern, D., Burdge, K., Coughlin, M., Djorgovski, S., Drake, A., Duev, D., Kasliwal, M., Mahabal, A., van Velzen, S., Belecki, J., Bellm, E., Burruss, R., Cenko, S., Cunningham, V., Helou, G., & Kulkarni, S., . . . Soumagnac, M.T. (2020). Candidate electromagnetic counterpart to the binary black hole merger gravitational-wave event S190521g. Physical Review Letters Online, 124(25). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.251102

Notice:

  1. The article title is in sentence case capitalization (only first word, proper nouns, or first word after colon are capitalized); the journal title is in headline capitalization (all major words capitalized). 
  2. Do not change the order of authors in a multi-authored work; the first author in the list is the lead author.

Magazine Article - Print

In-Text Citation

(Mershon, 1998)

References

Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year of Publication). Article title. Title of Magazine, Volume #(Issue #), page range.

Example:

Mershon, D. H. (1998, November/December). Star Trek on the brain: Alien minds, human minds. American Scientist, 86(6), 585.

Notice: 

Magazine Article - Online

In-Text Citation

(Delap, 2016)

 References

Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year of Publication). Article title. Title of Magazine. URL

Example:

Delap, L. (2016, Nov, 28). Green acres are flourishing on campus rooftops across the country. Maclean’s. http://www.macleans.ca/education/university/green-acres-are-flourishing-...

Notice: 

  • The article title is in sentence case capitalization (only first word, proper nouns, or first word after colon are capitalized); the magazine title is in headline capitalization (all major words capitalized). 

News Article - Print

In-Text Citation

(Friessen, 2010)

References

Author's Last Name, First Initial.  (Date of Publication). Article title. Title of Newspaper, page #.

Example:

Friessen, J. (2010, February 1). More than 300 people linked to suspected case of citizenship fraud. The Globe and Mail, p. A1.

Notice: 

News Article - Online

In-Text Citation

(Cooper, 2010)

References

Author's Last Name, First Initial.  (Date of Publication). Article title. Title of Newspaper. URL 

Example:

Cooper, H. (2010, March 8). Obama says health overhaul should trump politics. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com

Notice: 

  • The article title is in sentence case capitalization (only first word, proper nouns, or first word after colon are capitalized); the newspaper (news agency) title is in headline capitalization (all major words capitalized). 

Editorial or Letter to the Editor

In-Text Citation

(Smith, 2010)

References

Author's Last Name, First Initial.  (Date of Publication). Article title [Description]. Title of Newspaper/Magazine, Volume(Issue), page #.

Example:

Smith, Z. A. (2010). College presidents' pay: Would you want the job? [Letter to Editor]. Chronicle of Higher Education, LVL (23), A30.

Notice:

  1. A description of the source, such as letter to editor or editorial, is included in square brackets after the title of the article.
  2. The article title is in sentence case capitalization (only first word, proper nouns, or first word after colon are capitalized); the publication title is in headline capitalization (all major words capitalized). 

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