Elements of the citation Authors Family name and initials.

Example of journal citation. Citation styles can be defined by an association such as the Modern Language Association MLA publisher such as the University of Chicago Press or journal such as. Here is an APA citation for the article from the Journal of Interactive Online Learning the journal whose homepage we found. So your example would read like this.

Include an in-text citation when you refer to summarize paraphrase or quote from another source. You may provide a page number preceded by p for one page or pp for multiple pages as well if the passage or idea you are paraphrasing is on a certain page or set of pages but this is not necessary for APA journal citations. REFER ENCE ONE TO SIX AUTHORS 2.

When an article has twenty-one or more authors list the first nineteen authors followed by three spaced ellipse points. Author last name First name and Author first name last name. For every in-text citation in your paper there must be a corresponding entry in your reference list.

These were all found via a database. First provide publication details of the original article. - It is now optional where there are more than 3 authors to add et al after the 3rd or 6th author.

For the title of a longer work like a book or film youd use italics instead. If an item has no author start the citation with the article title. The full reference of in-text citations appears in the reference list.

Title of Journal Volume number issue number if available pagesExample. Then provide information about the retraction in parentheses including its year journal volume issue and page number s. Because the article does not have a DOI the APA citation ends with Retrieved from followed by the URL of the journal homepage.