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APA Style: Periodicals

What is a Periodical?

Periodical is a publication that is published periodically.   Under this definition, we have three types:

 

Magazine     Journal      Newspaper

CIting Periodicals

APA Style

Citing a Periodical 

Periodical Article Reference Parts:

  • Author, A. A.
  • (Year).
  • Title of the article in sentence case: Subtitle of the article.
  • Journal Title,
  • volume(issue),
  • page range.
  • doi or url

Examples

Journal Article

  • Tenhunen, J. J. (2009). In death, truth lies: Why do patients with sepsis die? Anesthesia and Analgesia, 108, 1731-1733.

Include the volume number for all journals, and italicize this. Include the issue number if the journal is paginated by volume (each volume of the journal starts numbering the pages at “1”).

  • Gardner, E. (2008). Accounting for taste. Psychology Today, 41(5), 70-77.

Article in a newspaper

  • Altman, L. K. (2009, August 5). New strain of H.I.V. is discovered. The New York Times, p. A6.

Article in a magazine

  • Perry, C. (2008, July/August). From SCUBA to Buddha. Mother Jones, 33, 62.

For an article found on an online journal from a database, such as Academic Search Complete (APA 6.32):

  • Keizman, D., Ish-Shalom, M., & Konikoff, F. M. (2007). The clinical significance of bile duct sludge: Is it different from bile duct stones? Surgical Endoscopy, 21, 769-773.  https://link.springer.com/journal/464.

-OR

  • Keizman, D., Ish-Shalom, M., & Konikoff, F. M. (2007). The clinical significance of bile duct sludge: Is it different from bile duct stones? Surgical Endoscopy, 21, 769-773. doi:10.1007/s00464-006-9153-0

 

DOI

APA suggests adding the digital object identifier (doi) at the end of the citation if it is provided in an online article. Most professors at TWU require an inclusion of the doi for all electronic articles.  

If there is no doi that has been assigned to the article, provide the home page of the journal or of the book or report publisher. If you are accessing the article from a private database, you may need to do a quick web search to locate this URL.