APA Format Citation TutorialCiting an Electronic Journal Article

2009

Here’s a record for an article from Academic Source Premier.

To create a citation for this article, what should we include first?

If you said , “Start with the author(s) names” you’re RIGHT!In APA format, you list the author’s last name and then his/her first initial ONLY.Here’s how the authors of our article would be listed:

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R.

Notice that the authors’ first names are not listed, just the initial of their first names.

What goes next?

You always need to indicate the year in which the article you are citing was published. AND to make it more noticeable, you put it in parentheses.

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R. (2009).

The next piece to add is the title of the article.

In APA format, only the initial word and proper nouns (names) are capitalized.

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R. (2009). Implications of both statistical equilibrium and global warming stimulations with CCSM3, Part I: On the decadal variability in the North Pacific Basin.

The next piece we need to add is the journal title with the volume and issue numbers plus the pages.

In APA format the journal title name is always italicized and followed by a comma.

Be very careful of the punctuation in this part of the citation.

The volume number comes first with the issue number in parentheses.

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R. (2009). Implications of both statistical equilibrium and global warming stimulations with CCSM3, Part I: On the decadal variability in the North Pacific Basin. Journal of Climate, 22 (20), 5277-5297.

The journal title portion ends with a period after the page numbers.

The last thing to add is the database name or the DOI (digital object identifier) for the article. Our article does not have a DOI listed in the record, so we need to add the database name. None of the EBSCO databases regularly provide DOI information.

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R. (2009). Implications of both statistical equilibrium and global warming stimulations with CCSM3, Part I: On the decadal variability in the North Pacific Basin. Journal of Climate, 22 (20), 5277-5297. Retrieved from Academic Source Premier.

So, our finished citation looks like this:

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R. (2009) . Implications of both statistical equilibrium and global warming stimulations with CCSM3, Part I: On the decadal variability in the North Pacific Basin. Journal of Climate, 22

(20), 5277-5297. Retrieved from Academic Source Premier.

The full database information is provided so that your reader can find your article for further research.

IF the article record did include a DOI (digital object identifier) we would include that at the end of the citation. Our citation would then look like the following:

D’Orgeville, M., & Peltier, W. R. (2009) . Implications of both statistical equilibrium and global warming stimulations with CCSM3, Part I: On the decadal variability in the North Pacific Basin. Journal of Climate, 22 (20), 5277-5297. DOI: 10.1106/92YH-9YU9-HVW4-RVKT

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