Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C.
- Authors last name, first and middle name initials
- If your source uses an Organizations' Name, you use the organizations name i.e Red Cross; Midwestern Career College
- If there is no author, use the title of your source:
- All Proper nouns must be capitalized
- Punctuation Counts. Put a period after your author
- Use et al. if there are more than 3 authors
(Year).
- Use Parenthesis: (Year)
- Place a period after the closing parenthesis (Year).
- Put the year of the source in the parenthesis
- If your source has a published year, it will be within the page
Title of article.
- This refers to the name of your article used in your paper
- The first letter of the Title and Subtitle must be capitalized.
- Title of the article: Subtitle of the article
- All Proper nouns must be capitalized
- Put a period after your title
Title of Periodical,
- The title of the periodical is the name of a journal, newspaper, magazine, etc. that is used in the paper.
- It is not the title of the article
- The title of the periodical must be in Italics
- Punctuation Counts: put a comma after the title of the periodical
- Capitalize all major words in journal titles.
Volume number(issue number),
- The volume number is in Italics
- The issue number is not in Italics
- The issue number is in parenthesis
- Articles can have volume number by itself
- Articles can have issue number by itself
- Articles can have both volume number and Issue number
- There is no space with the volume and issue number
- Punctuation matters: use the comma after the issue or volume number is added
pages.
- This references the pages of your article
- Punctuation matters: put a period after you add the page numbers.
