LibGuides: APA 7th Edition Referencing Guide1: Journals & journal articles

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How do I reference a journal or magazine article with a season instead of volume and issue numbers?

If a journal or magazine is published by season and does not include a volume or issue number, include the season with the date in parentheses. For example:

Reference list entry

Ratner-Rosenhagen, J. (2019, Spring). The end of the world as we know it? Dissent.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it

In-text citations

Page/paragraph numbers are optional for paraphrased information.

Narrative
Ratner-Rosenhagen (2019) argues... (para. 4).

Parenthetical
(Ratner-Rosenhagen, 2019, para. 4).

Note
Include only the year in in-text citations; the season is not necessary.

How do I reference a magazine, newspaper, or journal article published on nonconsecutive pages?

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

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

How do I reference a journal article 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.

1) A supplement to a particular issue of a journal. Add the abbreviation “Suppl.” after the issue number to indicate you are referencing the supplement to this issue. The relevant page numbers have S in front of them (for supplement).

Bill, C., & Ahn, J. (2015). Integrating emergency care with population health. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 16(4.1, Suppl.), S14-S16.

2) A supplement to a volume of a journal not associated with a specific issue. In this case, 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 Research Starter Database like Salem Press encyclopedia?

Reference list entry

Purdy, E. R., & Popan, E. M. (2020). Design thinking. In Salem Press encyclopedia.

In-text citations

Page/paragraph numbers are optional for paraphrased information.

Narrative
According to Purdy and Popan (2020) ... (para. 2).

Parenthetical
... (Purdy & Popan, 2020, para. 2).

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

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

Journal articles reprinted from another source

Use this format for old journal articles which have been reprinted in a more recent journal publication.

While the below example for the Shannon-Weaver model of communication may appear to be complicated, it essentially is giving referencing information for both the original and reprinted articles.

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 if applicable (Reprinted from "Title of article in sentence case: Subtitle in sentence case," Year, Title of Publication in Italic Title Case, volume number[issue number], page range of article, DOI if applicable)

Shannon, C. E. (2001). A mathematical theory of communication. Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 5(1), 3-55. https://doi.org/10.1145/584091.584093 (Reprinted from "A mathematical theory of communication," 1948, Bell System Technical Journal, 26, 379-423, 623-656)

Reference list entry

Shannon, C. E. (2001). A mathematical theory of communication. Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 5(1), 3-55.
https://doi.org/10.1145/584091.584093 (Reprinted from "A mathematical theory of communication," 1948, Bell System Technical Journal, 26, 379-423, 623-656)

In-text citations

Page/paragraph numbers are optional for paraphrased information.

Narrative
Shannon (1948/2001) describes... (p. 30).

Parenthetical
... (Shannon, 1948/2001, p. 30).

Note

This example is very unusual in that the original publication has two page ranges. They are separated by a comma. If there is only one page range, you will only include that.

For reprinted journals, you will need to include both the original year and the year of reprint in the in-text citation.

Referencing a journal article with no page numbers

If you need to provide a page number from a journal article that doesn't have them (you are quoting from it, for example), give a section heading and a paragraph number instead.

Example

Reference list entry

Neville, F. G., Drury, J., Reicher, S. D., Choudhury, S., Stott, C., Ball, R., & Richardson, D. C. (2020). Self-categorization as a basis of behavioural mimicry: Experiments in The Hive. PLoS ONE, 15(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241227

In-text citations for quoting

Narrative
Neville et al. (2020) argue...(Procedure section, para. 2).

Parenthetical
... (Neville et al., 2020, Procedure section, para. 2).