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Articles from Periodicals (Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers)

REFERENCE EXAMPLES in American Psychological Association (APA) Style

Journal Articles (references should be listed in alphabetical order, text after the first line is flushed to the right):

McGurr, M. J. (2020). Writing centers, libraries, and medical and pharmacy schools. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 108(1), 84–88. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.714 

Suryanarayanan, S., Settlemier, A., & Goldstein, D. B. (2024). The interaction of turbulent spots with low-speed streaks. ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 146(7), 071106. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064852

Truesdell, S. L. & Saunders, M. M. (2020). Bone remodeling platforms: Understanding the need for multicellular lab-on-a-chip systems and predictive agent-based models. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 17(2), 1233-1252. https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2020063 

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FORMAT EXAMPLES:

Narrative, in-text citation is part of the sentence:
McGurr (2020)                               
for one author
Truesdell and Saunders (2020)       
 for two authors
Suryanarayanan et al. (2024)       
for three or more authors
McGurr (2020), Truesdell and Saunders (2020), and Suryanarayanan et al. (2024)
 for citing the three references above, listed by author's last name

Parenthetical, in-text citation is at the end of the sentence:
(McGurr, 2020)                                 
for one author
(Truesdell & Saunders, 2020)         
for two authors
(Suryanarayanan et al., 2024)       
for three or more authors
(McGurr, 2020; Truesdell & Saunders, 2020; Suryanarayanan et al., 2024)  for citing the three references above, listed by author's last name

For more details, examples, and other publication types, please refer to the APA Style Citation Guidehttps://libguides.uakron.edu/APAstyle