Article with a DOI
If an article has a DOI, you must include it in your reference.
For information on DOIs see here.
Author, A. (Date). Title of article in sentence case: Subtitle in sentence case. Title of Publication in Italic Title Case, volume number(issue number), page range of article. DOI
Grady, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
Examples
Reference list entry
Grady, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
In-text citation
Page/paragraph numbers are optional for paraphrased information.
Narrative
Grady (2019) argues that ... (p. 209).
Parenthetical
... (Grady, 2019, p. 209).
Journal with an article number or an eLocator
If an online journal article has an article number or an eLocator, you must include it in your reference.
What does it look like?
An eLocator will be a set of numbers with an 'e' in front of it: e0205568
An article number will often be labelled as 'Article number' after the volume information, or will be a single, long number instead of a page range.
The following is how you reference each:
Elocator
An elocator is a form of article number, so must have the word Article in front of it.
Author, A. (Date). Title of journal article in sentence case: Subtitle in sentence case. Title of Journal in Italic Title Case, volume number(issue number), Article eLocator, page range of article if applicable. URL/DOI
Jerrentrup, A., Mueller, T., Glowalla, U., Herder, M., Henrichs, N., Neubauer, A., & Schaefer, J. R. (2018). Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House". PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0193972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193972
Article number
Author, A. (Date). Title of journal article in sentence case: Subtitle in sentence case. Title of Journal in Italic Title Case, volume number(issue number), Article number, page range of article if applicable. URL/DOI
Kim, S. R. (2022). Viral infection and airway epithelial immunity in asthma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(17), Article 9914. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23179914
Missing information in a journal article
If a journal article does not have information, like:
then simply exclude these from the reference.
