APA (7th ed.) Citing Guide: Articles: Journals

Reference list entry:

Archer, C. L., Brodie, J. F., & Rauscher, S. A. (2019). Global warming will aggravate ozone pollution in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology, 58(6), 1267–1278. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0263.1 

Note: List all authors up to 20 authors.

See Publication Manual, Section 9.8. See Publication Manual 8.17 for in-text citation examples when there are multiple authors.

Reference list entry:

Fenske, W., Refardt, J., Chifu, I., Schnyder, I., Winzeler, B., Drummond, J., Ribeiro-Oliveira, A., Jr, Drescher, T., Bilz, S., Vogt, D. R., Malzahn, U., Kroiss, M., Christ, E., Henzen, C., Fischli, S., Tönjes, A., Mueller, B., Schopohl, J., Flitsch, J.,  …Christ-Crain, M. (2018). A copeptin-based approach in the diagnosis of diabetes insipidus. The New England Journal of Medicine, 379(5), 428–439. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1803760

Note: List first 19 authors followed by "..." then the last author of the article. There are no spaces before or after "...". See Publication Manual 8.17 for in-text citation examples when there are multiple authors.

Reference list entry:

Toncic, J. (2020). Teachers, AI grammar checkers, and the newest literacies: Emending writing pedagogy and assessment. Digital Culture & Education, 12(1) 26-51. https://doaj.org/article/69fe64fef90e46588b7e47e15dc1ba3c

Note: If an open access journal article has a DOI, include the DOI and not the URL.

Reference list entry:

Walters, G., & Contri, D. (1998). Outcome expectancies for gambling: Empirical modeling of a memory network in federal prison inmates. Journal of Gambling Studies, 14(2), 173-91. 

Reference list entry:

Dagen, A. S. & Morewood, A. (2016). Strengthening early literacy through online collaboration and mentoring. YC Young Children, 71;(4), 20-25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/ycyoungchildren.71.4.20 

What is an article number or eLocator?

• some databases assign unique numbers to articles (usually open access databases do this) 
• the same article may appear more than once in search results and not consistently include the eLocator;
• use your discretion when choosing which result to cite

Reference list entry:

Kihoon, K., Ratri, M. C., Choe, G., Nam, M., Cho, D. & Shin, K. (2020). Three-dimensional, printed water-filtration system for economical, on-site arsenic removal. PLoS ONE, 15(4), Article e0231475. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231475

Reference list entry:

Grande, J.A., Keogh, J., Silva, V., Scott, A.M. (2020). Exercise versus no exercise for the occurrence, severity, and duration of acute respiratory infections. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010596.pub3

Note: Articles in the Cochrane database are only accessible in that database. Follow the formats for journal references. The database name takes the place of the source.

Reference list entry:

Lachs, W. R. (2005). Area-wide system protection scheme against extreme contingencies. Proceedings of the IEEE, USA, 93(5), 1004-1027. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2005.847263

For more information see APA Style

For all of the examples above, the in-text citation follows the same format. Refer to the Publication Manual, Section 8.17 for explanation with multiple authors.

Parenthetical citation format: (last name of author(s), year)

e.g. (Lachs, 2005)

e.g. (Walters & Contri, 1998)

Narrative citation format: include the author's or authors' names in the sentence, with the date in brackets

e.g. Lachs (2005) wrote...

e.g. Walters and Contri (1998) wrote...

More in-text citation information on this guide.