Volume Number and Issue Number
Italicize the volume number.
Include the issue number when available.
Put the issue number in parentheses directly
after the volume number—do not put a
space between the volume number and the
opening parenthesis.
Do not use italics or other formatting for the
issue number and its parentheses.
Put a comma after the closing parenthesis—
do not italicize the comma.
If no issue number is shown on the work,
omit it and place a comma directly after the
volume number—do not italicize the comma
after the volume number.
Page Number
Include the full page range of the article.
Do not use italics or other formatting.
Separate numbers in the page range using
an en dash (–).
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Do not include page abbreviations, such as
“pp.” or “pg.”
Put a period after the second page number.
If the article has an article number or
eLocator instead of a page range, write the
word “Article” and then the article number
instead of a page range, followed by a
period.
DOI or URL
Include the DOI if available; use the Crossref
DOI search engine if you cannot nd the
DOI.
Include the URL if the article is retrieved
online (but not from a database) and has
no DOI.
If the article comes from an academic
research database and does not have a
DOI, do not include any electronic retrieval
information in the reference.
Copy and paste the DOI or URL directly
from your web browser.
Do not put a period at the end of the
DOI or URL.
Do not write “Retrieved from” or
“Accessed from” before the DOI or URL.
See the APA Style website for
more information on how to format
DOIs and URLs and when to include a URL
for articles retrieved from a database.
Examples of Journal Article References
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, 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
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
Sanchiz, M., Chevalier, A., & Amadieu, F. (2017). How do older and young adults start searching for information?
Impact of age, domain knowledge and problem complexity on the different steps of information searching.
Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 67–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.038
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For help creating an en dash, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_make_dashes
More information on and examples of journal article references
can be found in Section 10.1 of the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association (7th ed.) and the Concise
Guide to APA Style (7th ed.).
SOURCE: American Psychological Association. (2020).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
(7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
CREDIT: JULIE HILL, LASALLE UNIVERSITY