Use Our Free APA 6 Reference Guide To Cite Journals Easily

• Arrange entries in alphabetical order by authors’ last names;
• When there are 2-6 authors, use “&” before the last one;
• Double-space each entry and apply a hanging indent;
• Italicize titles (e.g., titles of journals, magazines, encyclopedias, books, etc.) and volume numbers;
• Use a sentence case for article titles and a title case for journal titles;
• Don’t include a space after volume numbers or between a “DOI” and a colon;
• Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) whenever available for citing both print and online journals;
• When there’s no DOI, include “Retrieved from,” followed by a non-underlined URL.

Gordon, L. (1993). Public health is more important than health care. Journal of Public Health Policy, 14(3), 261-264. https://doi.org/10.2307/3343038

Rey, E., & Boulet, L.-P. (2007). Pregnancy plus: Asthma in pregnancy. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 334(7593), 582-585. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20506666

Osman, M. (2010). Controlling uncertainty: A review of human behavior in complex dynamic environments. Psychological Bulletin, 136(1), 65-86. doi:10.1037/a0017815

Davis, Z. J., Bramley, N. R., & Rehder, B. (2020). Causal structure learning in continuous systems. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 244. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00244

Kahle, L. R., Lowrey, T. M., & Huber, J. (2022). APA handbook of consumer psychology. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000262-000

Byrom, A. (2018). Sustainability: Everybody’s business. TPM Journal, 21(10). Retrieved from https://www.all4maternity.com

• Provide an author’s last name along with a journal’s publication year, placing both or the year only in parentheses;
• Provide only the publication year when there’s no author;
• For two-author journal articles, include “and” in narrative and “&” in parenthetical citations. Do the same for 3-5 authors for first in-text citations, while mentioning only the first author followed by “et al.” in all the subsequent citations. Use “et al.” for six or more authors;
• Include a page number or a page range when citing direct quotes.
  

Smith (2021)(Williams, 2005)

Kennedy and Johnson (2019)

(Brown & Davis, 1996)

Clarkson, Gonzales, and Jones (2004)

(Clarkson et al., 2004)

Anderson (2018) reports that “…” (p. 214).

This has been reported as “…” (Walker, 2008, pp. 105-106).