LibGuides: Wintec's APA Referencing Guides: Journals

How do I reference a journal with no volume or issue numbers, but instead a month or season?

If the journal has no volume or issue numbers, you can instead put the month or season into the parentheses with the year. For example:

Fincher, L. H. (2013, Spring). Women’s rights at risk. Dissent. Retrieved from http://www.dissentmagazine.org/

Gibson, J. (2010, June). Veggie gardening with scissors and a spatula. Healthy Options, 48-49.

The month or season is not required in the in-text citation - only the year. For example:

Gibson (2010) says that veggie gardening is popular in New Zealand because vegetables grow well in the mild climate (p. 48).

How do I reference an article from a journal supplement?

An article from a journal supplement is referenced in a similar way to a regular journal article. There are at least two different types of supplements.

A supplement to a particular issue of a journal. You put in the volume & issue number and add the word “Suppl.” to indicate it’s a supplement to this issue. The page numbers in this issue have an S in front of them to show it is a supplement.

Murphy, L., & Heimick, C. G. (2012). The impact of osteoarthritis in the United States: A population- health perspective. American Journal of Nursing, 112(3, Suppl.), S13-S19. Retrieved from EBSCOhost database.

A supplement to a volume of a journal (not associated with a specific issue). In this case you simply put in the volume number and then “Suppl.” followed by the number of the supplement.

Rogers, J. W., Kinner, R. L., & Weis, V. (2013).The architecture of the gravitational lens. Astronomicity,16(Suppl. 2), 170-192.

How do I reference a magazine, newspaper or journal article which has discontinuous pages?

If a magazine, newspaper or journal article is spread over a number of different pages, you give all page numbers and separate the numbers with a comma. For example:

Lewis, G. (2014, July 30). Job losses not isolated. Hamilton Press, pp. 1, 17.