APA & MLA Citation Guide

Journal articles with up to and including 20 authors

General Article Citation Outline

• Be mindful of the punctuation and formatting. Remember titles of articles are all lowercase except the letters after punctuation - see examples below. 

• Print or in a library database, with no DOI

Crawford, M., & Witte, M. (1999). Strategies for mathematics: Teaching in context. Educational Leadership, 57(3), 34-38.

• with a DOI

Olsson, C. A., Bond, L., Burns, J. M., Vella-Brokrick, D. A., & Sawyer, S. M. (2003). Adolescent resilience: A concept analysis. Journal of Adolescence, 26(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-1971(02)00118-5

• On a website with no DOI

Robinson, D. B., & Randall, L. (2016). Smooth sailing or stormy seas? Atlantic Canadian physical educators on the state and future of physical education. Canadian Journal Of Education, 39(1), 1-31. 
https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/1984

• (APA Publication Manual, 2020, pp. 316-318)

Magazine article 

• Print or in a library database, with no DOI
•  Grey, C. (1992, September).  Childhood immunizations. Chatelaine, 65(9), 38
• On a website
• MacDonald, N. (2008, June 9). A School of one's own: A B.C. student's quest to get young Afghan girls like her educated. Maclean's. https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2008/6/9/a-school-of-ones-own
• (APA Publication Manual, 2020, p. 320)

Book review (in a magazine)

• Goodman, A. L. (1951, July 16). Mad about children [Review of the book Catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger]. New Republic, 125(3), 20-21. 
• (APA Publication Manual, 2020, pp. 334-335)

ERIC document

• Mamaril, N. J. A., & Royal, K. D. (2008). Women and minorities in engineering: A review of the literature (ED506512) ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED506512.pdf
• (APA Publication Manual, 2020, pp. 296-297 & 337)