15 Creating Reference List Citations: Journal Articles
Next, we will use the 4 W’s to look at creating reference citations for the various sources evaluated in the previous chapters. Pay close attention to the punctuation and font emphasis (italic, underline) used.
The 4 Ws for the journal article (there are four slides)
The citation for the journal article (click image to see it bigger)
- Author: is the Family name, Initials. for each author, with a comma in between, and an ampersand (the and sign &) before the last author.
- Authors are always ordered as they appear on the work.
- Date: is the publication date (Year) of the article.
- Title: is in sentence-case, as are all titles of works cited in APA Style.
- Source location: is the Scholarly Journal Title (in Title-Case and italics), Volume number (in italics) and Issue number (in parentheses), the article’s page range, and hyperlinked DOI.
- Note: The article is part of a larger source (the scholarly journal), so the source is italicized and not the article.
Now try it yourself!
The Library’s APA Online Guide is a great resource to have on hand for creating reference citations.
Exercise 1: Find the elements needed for a reference list citation for this journal article
Exercise 2: How do you write each citation element in APA Style?
Image attribution:
“[Colour coded and labelled image for a journal citation]“ by University of Alberta Library’s APA Style Citation Tutorial is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International.