APA 7th - scholarly journal article

Format (Electronic) with DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Author. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://doi.org/xxx

Format (Electronic) without a DOI

Author. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://xxx

Format (Print)

Author. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s).

Examples

Salesa, T. D. (2014). Emma and Phebe: "Weavers of the border". Journal of the Polynesian Society, 123(2), 145-168. https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.123.2.145-167

Hoare, K. J. (2014). Children's participation in society is likely to lead to their improved health and wellbeing. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1405), 12-14. https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2014/vol-127-no-1405/6344

Leger, D. (1994). The cost of sleep-related accidents: A report for the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research. Sleep, 17(1), 84-93.

Format (Electronic) with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, & Twenty. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://doi.org/xxx

Format (Electronic) without a DOI

Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, & Twenty. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://xxx

Format (Print)

Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, & Twenty. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s).

Examples

Garnevska, E., Joseph, H., & Kingi, T. (2014). Development and challenges of cocoa cooperatives in Papua New Guinea: Case of Manus province. Asia Pacific Business Review, 20(3), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2014.931046

Shuker, C., Bohm, G., Bramley, D., Frost, S., Galler, D., Hamblin, R., Henderson, R., Jansen, P., Martin, G., Orsborn, K., Penny, A., Wilson, J., & Merry, A. F. (2015). The health quality and safety commission: Making good health care better. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128(1408), 97-109. https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2015/vol-128-no-1408/6419

Väyrynen, S., Kesälahti, E., Pynninen, T., Siivola, J., Flotskaya, N., Bulanova, S., Volskaya, O., Usova, Z., Kuzmicheva, T., & Afonkina, Y. (2016). Finnish and Russian teachers supporting the development of social skills. European Journal of Teacher Education, 39(4), 437-451.

List the first nineteen authors' names, insert ellipses (3 full stops), then add the last author.

Format (Electronic) with a DOI (Digital Object Indentifier)

Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, ... Last. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://doi.org/xxx

Format (Electronic) without a DOI 

Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, ... Last. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://xxx

Format (Print)

Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, ... Last. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s).

Examples

Martínez-Alarcón, L., Ríos, A., Santainés-Borredá, E., Agras-Suarez, M. C., Cañadas-De la Fuente, G. A., Hurtado-Pardos, B., Bárcena-Calvo, C., Perelló-Campaner, C., Arribas-Marin, J. M., García-Mayor, S., Soto-Ruíz, M. N., Navalón, J. C., Bertran-Noguer, C., Peña-Amaro, M. P., Jiménez-Herrera, M. F., Blanco-Sánchez, R., Calvo-Sánchez, M. D., Prado-Laguna, M. C., González-García, A., ... Parrilla, P. (2019). Nursing students’ knowledge about organ donation and transplantation: A Spanish multicenter study. Transplantation Proceedings, 51(9), 3008-3011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.08.019

Pegion, K., Kirtman, B. P., Becker, E., Collins, D. C., LaJoie, E., Burgman, R., Bell, R., DelSole, T., Min, D., Zhu, Y., Li, W., Sinsky, E., Guan, H., Gottschalck, J., Metzger, E. J., Barton, N. P., Achuthavarier, D., Marshak, J., Koster, R. D., ... Kim, H. (2019). The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A multimodel subseasonal prediction experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(10), 2043-2060. https://bit.ly/33RXEZP

Dalton, J., Burles, L., Masding, M., Nicholls, A., Cook, S., Lopes, B., Hanna, J., McAulay, A., Deamer, S., Nielsen, L. M., Foggin, S. M., Hobson, J. M., Cook, S., Wilson, A., Clement, F., Clark, M. P., Green, P., Peters, W., Muldoon, R., ... Key, J. (2019). The Poole young people's diabetes service. Journal of Diabetes Nursing, 23(5), 1-5. 

Note: Group could be an organisation, association, government department, study group, etc.

Format (Electronic) with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Name of Organisation. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://doi.org/xxx

Format (Electronic) without a DOI 

Name of Organisation. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://xxx

Format (Print)

Author. (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s).

Examples

United Nations Development Programme. (1984). Technical co-operation for energy development in developing countries. OPEC Review, 8(2), 171-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0076.1984.tb00274.x

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators. (2017). Nations within a nation: Variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990-2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet, 390(10111), 2437-2460. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32804-0/fulltext

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (1994). Zidovudine for the prevention of HIV transmission from mother to infant. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 43(16), 285-287.

If the author is unknown, place the title in the author position followed by the date of publication.

Format (Electronic) with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Title of article. (Year of publication). Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://doi.org/xxx

Format (Electronic) without a DOI 

Title of article. (Year of publication). Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s). https://xxx

Format (Print)

Title of article. (Year of publication). Name of Publication, volume(issue), page number(s).

Examples

A balanced online life [Editorial]. (2019). The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 3(12), 835. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30354-2

Chronic pelvic pain in women. (2016). Best Practice Journal, (73), 38-40. https://bpac.org.nz/BPJ/2015/September/pelvic.aspx

When hiring execs, context matters most. (2017). Harvard Business Review, 95(5), 20-22.

If no doi is available put the url instead - don't forget to update your reference when it is published with the volume, issue and pages.

Format (Electronic) with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Author(s). (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/xxx

Format (Electronic) without a DOI 

Author(s). (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Publication, Advance online publication. https://xxx

Example

Moher, J. (2019). Distracting objects induce early quitting in visual search. Psychological Science, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619886809

Scott, J. A., Heard, S. O., Zayaruzny, M., & Waiz, M. (2019). Airway management in critical illness: An update. Chest, Advance online publication. https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(19)34193-5/fulltext

• ... the economic cost of motor vehicle accidents caused by sleepiness (Leger, 1994). Sleep deprivation, according to Leger (1994), also leads to higher rates of work-related injures.

Note: If you use a Parenthetical Citation the first time, followed by a Narrative Citation, you need to repeat the date.

• In a recent study, Leger (1994) explored the economic cost of sleepiness in accidents. Leger further claims that sleep deprivation leads to higher work-related injuries.

Note: If you use a Narrative Citation the first time, followed by another Narrative Citation, you can omit the date. But, if you use a Parenthetical Citation the next time you need to include the date.

Use ‘&’ between the authors' surnames when they are enclosed within brackets. Use ‘and’ when they form part of the sentence.

• … carpal tunnel syndrome is significantly higher in diabetic patients (Mauermann & Watson, 2017).  Mauermann and Watson (2017) noted that it was a risk factor for both type 1 and 2 diabetics.

Note: If you use a Parenthetical Citation the first time, followed by a Narrative Citation, you need to repeat the date.

• Mauermann and Watson (2017) found that the use of D5W for carpal tunnel syndrome significantly reduced the level of pain. Mauermann and Watson also noted a reduction in patient’s disability scores.

Note: If you use a Narrative Citation the first time, followed by another Narrative Citation, you can omit the date. But, if you use a Parenthetical Citation the next time you need to include the date.

Cite only the surname of the first author followed by ‘et al.’

• … global environmental events impacted on the evolution of vascular plant patterns (Anderson et al., 1999). Anderson et al. (1999) discovered a clear linking between vascular plant-bearing formations and standard geological time-scale.

Note: If you use a Parenthetical Citation the first time, followed by a Narrative Citation, you need to repeat the date.

• Anderson et al. (1999) discussed the connection of plants changing the ecosystems. Though Anderson et al. acknowledged that the dominant gymnosperm orders are endemic to the Gondwana Kingdom. 

Note: If you use a Narrative Citation the first time, followed by another Narrative Citation, you can omit the date. But, if you use a Parenthetical Citation the next time you need to include the date.

Use the the name of the group as it appears in your reference list. However, the Group name can be abbreviated. The first time cite the full name with the abbreviation. Subsequently only use the abbreviation. If the reader could be confused by the abbreviation use the full group name each time.

• ... the effectiveness of zidovudine in the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus transmission (HIV) from mothers to babies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 1994). 

 Subsequently cite the name of the group in the abbreviated form.

• CDC (1994) reported that each year about 7000 HIV-infected women give birth and of those 35% have HIV-infected babies.

OR

• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 1984) provides assistance to developing countries to help improve their socioeconomic conditions.

 Subsequently cite the name of the group in the abbreviated form.

• UNDP (1984) help to build self-reliance via the financing of technical co-operation and other pre-investment undertakings.

For the title of the article with no author use Title Case with double quotation marks.  For a long title use only the first few words.

• Companies are more successful with leaders whose skills fit the particular challenges of the job (“When Hiring Execs,” 2017).

• The article “When Hiring Execs” (2017) suggests that you ascertain personality attributes, skills and appropriate experiences of executives as leaders before hiring.

Note: In the reference list use Sentence case i.e. only capitalise the first word of the title, first word of a subtitle or first word after a colon, plus proper nouns.  

Example:

When hiring execs, context matters most. (2017). Harvard Business Review, 95(5), 20-22.