Citing journal articles
Journal articles, printed or retrieved from online databases, are referenced differently from books with one or multiple authors. When preparing journal-obtained citations, database records should provide all of the information required to produce a reference, from which you should extract the following:
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- Author or authors of the piece (last name first and first name as an initial)
- Year of publication (in brackets)
- Article title
- Journal title (in italics)
- Volume of journal (in italics) and issue number (in brackets, no italics)
- Page range
- DOI (when available)
Remember that reference lists should be placed at the very end of essays and research papers and should be presented alphabetically.
APA Journal article reference format:
Last name, initial. (Year). Article Title. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pp. page range.
Examples:
- Darlow, B. et al. (2013). The enduring impact of what clinicians say to people with low back pain. Annals of Family Medicine, 11(6), pp.527-534. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1518
- Maceachen, D. (1950). Wilkie Collins and British Law. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 5(2), pp. 121–139. DOI: 10.2307/44372511
- Theroux, A. (1990) “Henry James’s Boston”, The Iowa Review, 20(2), pp. 158–165. DOI: 10.17077/0021-065X.3902