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ReferenceList:ArticlesinPeriodicals
Summary:

APA(AmericanPsychologicalAssociation)styleismostcommonlyusedtocitesourceswithinthesocialsciences.Thisresource,

revisedaccordingtothe6thedition,secondprintingoftheAPAmanual,offersexamplesforthegeneralformatofAPAresearch
papers,intextcitations,endnotes/footnotes,andthereferencepage.Formoreinformation,pleaseconsultthePublicationManualof

theAmericanPsychologicalAssociation,(6thed.,2ndprinting).

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BasicForm

APAstyledictatesthatauthorsarenamedlastnamefollowedbyinitialspublicationyeargoesbetweenparentheses,followedbya
period.Thetitleofthearticleisinsentencecase,meaningonlythefirstwordandpropernounsinthetitlearecapitalized.The
periodicaltitleisrunintitlecase,andisfollowedbythevolumenumberwhich,withthetitle,isalsoitalicized.IfaDOIhasbeen
assignedtothearticlethatyouareusing,youshouldincludethisafterthepagenumbersforthearticle.IfnoDOIhasbeenassigned
andyouareaccessingtheperiodicalonline,usetheURLofthewebsitefromwhichyouareretrievingtheperiodical.

Author,A.A.,Author,B.B.,&Author,C.C.(Year).Titleofarticle.Titleof
Periodical,volumenumber(issuenumber),pages.
http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy

ArticleinJournalPaginatedbyVolume

Journalsthatarepaginatedbyvolumebeginwithpageoneinissueone,andcontinuenumberingissuetwowhereissueoneended,
etc.

Harlow,H.F.(1983).Fundamentalsforpreparingpsychologyjournalarticles.
JournalofComparativeandPhysiologicalPsychology,55,893896.

ArticleinJournalPaginatedbyIssue

Journalspaginatedbyissuebeginwithpageoneeveryissuetherefore,theissuenumbergetsindicatedinparenthesesafterthe
volume.Theparenthesesandissuenumberarenotitalicizedorunderlined.

Scruton,R.(1996).Theeclipseoflistening.TheNewCriterion,15(3),513.

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ArticleinaMagazine

Henry,W.A.,III.(1990,April9).Makingthegradeintoday'sschools.Time,
135,2831.

ArticleinaNewspaper

Unlikeotherperiodicals,p.orpp.precedespagenumbersforanewspaperreferenceinAPAstyle.Singlepagestakep.,e.g.,p.B2
multiplepagestakepp.,e.g.,pp.B2,B4orpp.C1,C3C4.

Schultz,S.(2005,December28).Callsmadetostrengthenstateenergypolicies.
TheCountryToday,pp.1A,2A.

Note:Becauseofissueswithhtmlcoding,thelistingsbelowusingbracketscontainspacesthatarenottobeusedwithyourlistings.
Useaspaceasnormalbeforethebrackets,butdonotincludeaspacefollowingthebracket.

LettertotheEditor

Moller,G.(2002,August).Ripplesversusrumbles[Lettertotheeditor].
ScientificAmerican,287(2),12.

Review

Baumeister,R.F.(1993).Exposingtheselfknowledgemyth[Reviewofthebook
Theselfknower:Aheroundercontrol,byR.A.Wicklund&M.Eckert].
ContemporaryPsychology,38,466467.

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