Chapter 9: Academic Integrity and Style Rules (APA 7th edition)
Reference Page Examples – Journal Articles
As per APA (2020), with articles in scholarly journals, you include:
- The author or authors’ names.
- Publication year.
- Article title (in sentence case, without quotation marks or italics).
- Journal title (in title case and in italics).
- Volume number (in italics) and issue number not italicized (in parentheses).
- Page number(s) where the article appears.
Here are some examples:
***NOTE: Only include the year of publication with journals. However, with sources that are published more frequently like a newspaper, blog, or magazine, you also include the month and day as per the examples.
In addition: don’t forget to double space the entry and use a hanging indent for the lines following the first line.
Student Tip
21 or more authors
As per APA (2020) all authors’ last names (and initials) should be listed except when there are 21 or more authors. In this case, you list the first 19 names followed by an ellipsis (and no ampersand in this case) and then the last author name (APA, 2020). Here is an example:
Pathak, L., DeCarlo, I., Ahmad, D., Ibrahim, D., Rabbani, L., Yousuf, D., Chen, L., Igibiki, I., Lee, R., Carter, S., Peters, L., Yau, C., Schulz, T., Kang, L., Jones, K., Marta, J., Wahab, Z., Uddin, P., Malai, J., … Sayad, H. (2025). Muslim women’s experiences of primary care. Canadian Community and Public Health Journal, 45(3), 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000118-987
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