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Introduction
In-Text Citation
Books
Books
Selections from Books
Periodicals
Online Sources
Other Sources
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Citing Periodicals in APA Style
Remember that entries in the Works Cited list are listed alphabetically
by author. This page deals with printed periodicals
only; there is another page for online periodical
databases and articles on the Internet.
When citing periodicals, you cite the individual articles rather
than an entire issue of the periodical. This page covers articles
in magazines, (scholarly) journals, and newspapers.
The components of a References list entry for articles from periodicals,
listed in the proper order:
| Component |
Formatting
Details
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Ending
Punctuation |
| Author(s) |
-
For the first
(or only) author, first include the author's last
name, followed by a comma, followed by the author's first
initial and middle initial (if known). [Example]
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For two or more authors, format
each author's name as above. Follow each author's
name with a comma and precede the last author with an
ampersand (&). Include up to the sixth author.
For the seventh and subsequent authors use "et al."
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If the author is a corporate or institutional
publication, give the name of the corporation or institution
as the author.
- If the work is a translation, give the original
author here. The translator will be listed later.
- If there is more than one work by an author on the
References page, alphabetize the works by the next element.
If there are multiple authors, alphabetize by the second
author. If not, alphabetize by the publication date.
- If the article is unsigned, begin the citation
with the article title, then publication date. [Example]
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Period (.) (just one, i.e. not
Berman, J..) |
| Publication
Date |
- Include the four-digit year of
publication. Enclose the date within parentheses.
(The ending period will be outside the parentheses.)
[Example]
- If the article is from a monthly magazine or a journal
that does not use volume numbers, give a comma, a space,
and then the month. Do not abbreviate. If a
season is given, write the season here. [Example]
- If the article is from a weekly (or otherwise dated)
magazine or daily newspaper, give a comma, a space,
and then the month and date. Do not abbreviate the
month and use digits for the date. [Example]
- If no date is available, write "n. d."
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Period (.) outside the parentheses |
| Title |
- Include the title of the article in
plain text. [Example]
- Click here for notes on
capitalization.
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Period (.) unless there's something
in the next section |
| Letter
or Review |
- If you are citing a letter
to the editor, write "[Letter to the editor]"
after the title, but before the ending period. [Example]
- If the article is a review, write "[Review
of the type title]" before the ending period.
Fill in the type a "book," "film," or
"video program." Fill in the title appropriately,
formatting it as you would if you were citing that resource. [Example]
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Period (.) outside the bracket |
| Magazine,
Newspaper, or Journal Title |
- Italicize or underline
the title of the periodical. [Example]
- Click here for notes on
capitalization.
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Comma (,) |
| Volume
(and Issue) Information |
- Give the volume number using
digits. Continue underlining or italicizing
from the title of the periodical, and underline or italicize
the ending comma. [Example]
- If the article is from a scholarly journal paged separately
by issue (i.e. each issue begins with page 1), give
the volume number, underlined or italicized as above.
Stop underlining or italicizing and do not give a comma
yet. Put the issue number in parentheses directly
following the volume number (no spaces). [Example]
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Comma (,) |
| Page
Number(s) |
- Include the page numbers of the article.
[Example]
- If the article appears on consecutive pages, separate
the first and last page numbers with a hyphen (-).
[Example]
- Do not abbreviate page numbers, i.e. "205-212"
instead of "205-12." [Example]
- If the article appears on nonconsecutive pages (starts
on one and jumps to another), give each page number
or range of pages, separated by commas, as is "1, 3,
5-12." [Example]
- For newspapers with sections, precede the page
numbers with the sections, as in "A1, A3."
[Example]
- For newspapers only, precede the page number(s)
with "p." or "pp." [Example]
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Period (.) |
Read the notes
on punctuation and italicization and underlining.
Citation Examples (from The Ready Reference
Handbook)
(Note that what is underlined can be italicized instead. Underlining is used here to draw
emphasis to the underlining or italicization of punctuation.)
Begley, S. (1993, June 28). The puzzle of genius. Newsweek, 121, 46-51.
[Article in popular magazine]
Coates, J. (1991, April 21). Crowds pose threat to U.S. park system. Chicago
Tribune, 121, pp. A1, A3.
[Article in daily newspaper]
Kasmer, L. (1990). Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper": A
symptomatic reading. Literature and Psychology, 46(3), 1-15.
[Article in scholarly journal]
Markowitz, M. C. (1993, May). Inpatient vs. outpatient. [Letter to the editor].
APA Monitor, p. 3.
[Article in scholarly journal]
McAuliffe, K. (1995, December). The undiscovered world of Thomas Edison. Atlantic
Monthly, 276, 80-93.
[Article in popular magazine]
Rafferty, T. (1995, December 18). Fidelity and infidelity [Review of the play
Sense and Sensibility]. The New Yorker, 71, 124-126.
[Article in popular magazine]
Rout, K. (1979). Dream a little dream of me: Mrs. May and the bull in Flannery
O'Connor's "Greenleaf." Studies in Short Fiction, 16, 233-234.
[Article in scholarly journal]
Turning Nature On and Off. (1998, September 6). Los Angeles Times, 118 p. B6.
[Article in daily newspaper]
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