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Citing Bibliographic Sources: APA: Periodicals

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Standard Reference Form

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume(#), pp-pp. https://doi.org/xxxxx

•    Include the digital object identifier (DOI) if there is one, regardless of whether you used the online or print version of an article.
•    If there is a DOI, don’t include the URL.
•    If an online work has no DOI, use the URL as long as it will work for most readers. See more guidelines on p. 299.

Article in a Journal

 

Article in a Journal with DOI

Piper, T. J., Brees, T. N., & Helling, K. (2018). The Turkish row. Strength & Conditioning Journal 40(4), 113-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1519/SSC.0000000000000349

Journal Article with an Article Number

Cho, C., Chande, A. T., Gakhar, L., Hunt, J., Ketterer, M. R., & Apicella, M. A. (2018). Characterization of a nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae thermonuclease. PloS One 13(5), Article e0197010. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197010

Article in a Magazine

Bailey, W. C. (2018, December). It's milk Jim, but not as we know it. International Agri Insights. https://www.asb.co.nz/content/dam/asb/documents/reports/international-agri-insights/International%20Agri%20Insights_Dec%202018.pdf

Article in a Magazine -- No Author

Hijacking history. (2021, May). Aviation History, 31(5), 8.

Newspaper Article

Alexander, D. C. (2015, December 12). Don’t discount females as terrorists. Peoria Journal-Star, A4.

Article in a Conference Proceeding

Huang, S., Pierce, R., & Stamey, J. (Eds.). (2006). Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on the design of communication. ACM Digital Library. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1166324&picked=prox