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APA Style Guide: Journals & magazine articles

In Text Citations

Inside your paper, give credit to the works you quote.

See examples of how to tell your readers where facts, paraphrases, or quotes in your paper come from at this site from the Purdue OWL.

Basic Journal/Magazine Article Citation

Author's Last Name, Author's First Initial. Author's Middle Initial. (Year,

Month/Date/Season*). Title of article. Title of Journal/Magazine,
Volume(Issue), Page(s). doi:xx.xxxxxxx

*Journal article references include only the year of publication unless more information would be necessary to find the article.

Digital Object Identifiers

Not every article will have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number in the reference citation.

The DOI is an alphanumeric string that is assigned to some electronic articles, and if it appears in the citation information for an article you are citing from an electronic source, it should be included. Reference citations without a DOI will look the same as the example citation above, but without "doi:xx.xxxxxxxx".

If no DOI is assigned to an article, but you retrieved the article online, be sure to include the URL for the page where you found the article, using the following format: Retrieved from http://www.websiteaddress.com

Example Journal article, one author

Sutherland, M. B. (2000). Problems of diversity in policy and practice: Celtic
          languages in the United Kingdom. Comparative Education, 36(2), 199-209.
          doi:10.1080/03050060050045363

Example Journal article, 3 to 6 authors

Gubbins, H., O'Halloran, S., Kearney, D., Dore, A., Magner, E., & Murphy, E. (2007).
          A forum for the practice of musicology in Ireland. British
          Postgraduate Musicology, 9, 5.

Example Magazine article

Elmer-DeWitt, P., & Farley, C. J. (1994, March 21). People who eat Hostess
          Twinkies.  Time, 143(12), 22. 

Quiz

  1. Which of the following is a correct APA citation for a journal article?

    1. Greenberg, M. (1992). The Ukulele in Your Classroom. Music
                Educators Journal      , 79(3), 43.
    2. Greenberg, Marvin. (1992). The ukulele in your classroom.
                Music Educators Journal, 79(3), 43.
    3. Greenberg, M. (1992). The ukulele in your classroom. Music
                Educators Journal, 79(3), 43.
    4. Greenberg, M. (1992). The ukulele in your classroom. Music
                Educators Journal      , 79(3), 43.

  1. Which of the following is a correct APA citation for a magazine article?

    1. Howard, L., & Koehl, C. (1995, April 10). Blame it all on the aurora
                borealis? Newsweek, 125(15), 8.
    2. Howard, L., and Koehl, C. (1995, April 10). Blame it all on the aurora
                borealis? Newsweek, 125(15), 8.
    3. Howard, L., & Koehl, C. (1995, April 10). “Blame it all on the aurora
                borealis?” Newsweek, 125(15), 8.
    4. Howard, L., & Koehl, C. (1995, April 10). Blame it all on the aurora
                borealis?       Newsweek, 125(15), 8.

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