Using peer-reviewed journal articles in your research paper is a great way to add credibility. Citing them isn’t hard either. Learn how to cite a peer-reviewed article in APA using these easy to follow examples.
Journal Article With One Author
Use these APA citation examples for peer-reviewed journal articles to add authority to your APA 7 research paper. Reviewing research by peers in the same field helps to validate the findings presented in the report. Usually, two or more researchers review each article before submitting it to the editor for a final review and acceptance. During this process, the reviewers may present findings that show the methodology is flawed and reject the manuscript outright.
Print Article
Print Format
Author, A.A. (year). Title of the article. Title of Journal, xx, pp-pp.
Example Print Article
Dekic, S. (2003). Sex, Slavery and Politics: Representations of Trafficked Women in the Serbian Media. Canadian Woman Studies, 22(3).
Example Print Article
Adler, S. R. (2002). Integrative medicine and culture: Toward an anthropology of CAM. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 16(4), 412.
Example Print Article
Foster, G. M. (1974). Medical anthropology: Some contrasts with medical sociology. Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 6(1), 1-6.
Retrieved From Website
Website Format
Author, A.A. (year). Title of the article. Title of Journal, xx, pp-pp. https://www.example.com
Example Website
Kotter, J. P. (2001). What leaders really do. Harvard Business Review, 79(11), 85-96. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deborah_Ancona/publication/6460599
Retrieved From DOI
DOI Format
Author, A.A. (year). Title of the article. Title of Journal, xx, pp-pp. https://doi:10.xxxx/xxxxxx
Example DOI
Cifor, M. (2016). Affecting relations: Introducing affect theory to archival
discourse. Archival Science, 16, 7-31. https://doi: 10.1007/s10502-
015-9261-5
Journal Article With More Than One Author
Print Article
Print Format
Author, A.A, Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (year). Title of the article. Title of Journal, xx, pp-pp.
Example Print Article
Trenerry, B., & Paradies, Y. (2012). Organizational assessment: An overlooked approach to managing diversity and addressing racism in the workplace. Journal of Diversity Management 7(1), 11.
Example Print Article
Lam, S., Cunsolo, A., Sawatzky, A., Ford, J., & Harper, S. L. (2017). How does the media portray drinking water security in Indigenous communities in Canada?: An analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage from 2000-2015. BMC Public Health, 17(1), 282.
Example Print Article
Hutchinson, H. B., Rose, A., Bederson, B. B., Weeks, A. C., & Druin, A. (2005). The International Children’s Digital Library: A case study in designing for a multilingual, multicultural, multigenerational audience. Information Technology and Libraries, 24(1), 4-12
Retrieved From Website
Website Format
Author, A.A, Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (year). Title of the article. Title of Journal, xx, pp-pp. https://www.xxxxxxxxx.com
Example Website
Goffee, R., & Jones, G. (2000). Why should anyone be led by you? Harvard Business Review, 78(5), 62. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deborah_Ancona/publication/6460599
Example Website
Grunfeld, H., & Ng, M.L.N. (2013). A multimedia approach to ODL for agricultural training in Cambodia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(1), 222-238. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1275/2440
Retrieved From DOI
DOI Format
Author, A.A, Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (year). Title of the article. Title of Journal, xx, pp-pp. https://doi: 10.xxxxxxx
Example DOI
Kok, I. & Blignaut, A. S. (2014). Snapshots of student-teachers’ experiences of DVDs in a learner support programme in a developing ODL context. Africa Education Review, 11(4), 526-543. https://doi: 10.1080/18146627.2014.935002
Example DOI
Jaeger, P. T., Greene, N. N., Bertot, J. C., Perkins, N., & Wahl, E. E. (2012). The co-evolution of e-government and public libraries: Technologies, access, education, and partnerships. Library & Information Science Research, 34(4), 271-281. https://doi: 10.1016/jlisr2012.06.003
- Do not place a period after the URL or DOI.
- Titles of articles are in sentence case.
- Titles of periodicals are in italics.