In-text Citation Basic Format.

How to do in text citation for journal article apa. When an article has one to seven authors all authors names are cited in the References List entry. Rules for Citing Journal Articles APA Style. In this latter case author initials are dropped and the year is provided in brackets.

Within the text use the word and. Include the description Supplemental material in square brackets after the article title. An MLA Works Cited entry for a journal article contains the authors.

The title of the article is in sentence-case meaning only the first word and proper nouns in the title are capitalized. 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. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the article title.

The periodical title is run in title case and is followed by. Only list the first author with the Latin abbreviation et al for any subsequent references. Include every author up to 20 authors.

B Last name C. APA in-text citations The basics. For direct quotations include the page number as well for example.

And a DOI if accessed online. When an article has eight or more authors list the first six authors followed by three spaced ellipse points and then the last authors name. If there is no author listed list the title of the article first capitalizing the first word.