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SUBJECT LIBGUIDE: LEARNING APA: Citing Magazine Articles

APA is the style of documentation of sources used by the American Psychological Association. This form of writing research papers is used mainly in the social sciences, like psychology, anthropology, sociology, as well as education and other fields.

Magazine Citation: Breaking down the citation in parts

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 of Publication, Month Day).

  • Use Parenthesis: (Year, Month day)
  • Place a period after the closing parenthesis (Year, Month day)
  • Put the date of the source in the parenthesis
  • If your source has a published year, it will be within the page
  • Example: (2012, May 14).
  • Punctuation Counts: place a period at the end

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 Magazine,

  • 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
  • Use p. for one page
  • Multiple pages p.p.
  • Punctuation matters: put a period after you add the page numbers.

Retrieved from Name of Database.

  • Retrieved from database link
  • Example: Retrieved from Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1614428215?accountid=144960

Citation: Magazine Examples