APA Style (7th ed.)
If your journal article has a DOI, please see How Do I Reference a Journal Article That Has a DOI in APA Style?. If your journal article does not have a DOI and was retrieved from a subscription-based research database, provide the author, date, title, and periodical information only, which means the reference ends with the page range (American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 299). For example:
Lastname, A. (year of publication). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume#(issue#), page#-page#.
If a nondatabase URL is available for articles without a DOI, use the URL instead of a DOI. For example:
Lastname, A. (year of publication). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume#(issue#), page#-page#. http://XXXXX
Examples and Explanation
Cuddy, C. (2002). Demystifying APA Style. Orthopaedic Nursing, 21(5), 35-42.
Posner, E.A. & Sunstein, C.R.. (2009). Should greenhouse gas permits be allocated on a per capita basis?. California Law Review. 97(1), 51-94. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/ viewcontent.cgi?article=2759&context=journal_articles
- In these example, “21” and "97" are the volume numbers, and “(5)” and "(1)" are the issue numbers of the journals. As per APA rules, “place the issue number immediately after the volume number (with no space in between), and enclose the issue number in parentheses” (American Psychological Association, 2020, p.294)
- Example parenthetical citation: (Cuddy, 2002, p. 39)
- Example narrative citation: Posner and Sunstein (2009) argued that "quoted text" (p. 53).
- See example #2 on page 317 of the APA Style manual.
Reference
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
