LibGuides: APA 7th Edition Referencing Guide1: Article with DOI

Quick links

Article with a DOI

If an article has a DOI, you must include it in your reference.

For information on DOIs see here.

Note: Not all articles will have all the elements below. Sometimes there's no volume or issue number, for example.

If they are missing, exclude them from your reference.

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

Article with a DOI and article number

An article number is a large number (usually in the thousands) that is present instead of a page range.

Note: Not all articles will have all the elements below. Sometimes there's no volume or issue number, for example.

If they are missing, exclude them from your reference.

Author, A. (Date). Title of journal article in sentence case: Subtitle in sentence case. Title of Publication in Italic Title Case, volume number(issue number), Article number, page range of article if applicable. 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

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).

Note

If the PDF version of the journal article has pages numbers starting from 1, a page range is not required in the reference list entry. However, use these page numbers in in-text citations for quotes.

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 Publication 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

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

Note
If any of the information is missing, like issue number or page range, exclude them from your reference.

Missing information in a journal article

If a journal article does not have information, like:

a volume number
an issue number
a page range

then simply exclude these from the reference.