Write the last name and initialized first name of a journal article's author.
Examples: Mitka, M.
Freeman, W.L.
Write your bibliographic citation if the journal article you chose has between two and seven authors as follows:
"Author's Last Name, Author's Initialized First Name," "Author's Last Name, Author's Initialized First Name," etc.
Examples: Gostin, L.O., & Kim, S.C.
Rider, L.G., Miller, F.W., Penson, D.F., & Brook, R.H.
If the journal article you chose has more than eight authors, write the first six authors of the article, followed by the last author.
Example: Goldman, S., Sethi, G.K., Holman, W., Thai, H., McFalls, E., Ward, H.B., . . . Lee, K.
Write the year of a journal article's initial publication in parentheses.
Then, write the journal article's title.
Example: Jordan, P.J., & Troth, A.C. (2004). Managing Emotions during Team Problem Solving.
Write the title of the journal you retrieved a specific article from, as well as the journal's volume number. Make sure both of these citations are written in italics.
Example: Tseng, H.F., Smith, N., Harpaz, R., Bialek, S.R., Sy, L.S., & Jacobsen, S.J. (2011). Herpes Zoster Vaccine in Older Adults and the Risk of Subsequent Herpes Zoster Disease. Journal of the American Medical Association, 305.
Write the issue number of the journal you retrieved a specific article from, as well as the page number(s) in which that article is located. Make sure both of these citations are written in parentheses, but not in italics.
Example: Tseng, H.F., Smith, N., Harpaz, R., Bialek, S.R., Sy, L.S., & Jacobsen, S.J. (2011). Herpes Zoster Vaccine in Older Adults and the Risk of Subsequent Herpes Zoster Disease. Journal of the American Medical Association, 305(2), 160-166.
Write your article's unique Digital Object Identifier (doi) if the article you retrieved from a particular journal was retrieved in an electronic format, but not directly from the journal's website.
Example: Tseng, H.F., Smith, N., Harpaz, R., Bialek, S.R., Sy, L.S., & Jacobsen, S.J. (2011). Herpes Zoster Vaccine in Older Adults and the Risk of Subsequent Herpes Zoster Disease. Journal of the American Medical Association, 305(2), 160-166. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1983.
Write the article's Uniform Resource Locator if the article you retrieved from a particular journal was retrieved directly from the journal's website. In addition, write the date in which you retrieved that article in parentheses next to the article's author(s).
Example: Tseng, H.F., Smith, N., Harpaz, R., Bialek, S.R., Sy, L.S., & Jacobsen, S.J. (2011, January 12). Herpes Zoster Vaccine in Older Adults and the Risk of Subsequent Herpes Zoster Disease. Journal of the American Medical Association, 305(2), 160-166. Retrieved from http://jama.ama-assn.org/.
At the very beginning of your bibliographic citation, write the last name and first name of a journal article's author.
Examples: Mitka, Michael.
Freeman, William L.
Write the article's title. Bbegin and end it with quotation marks.
Example: Munde, Gail. "Considerations for Managing an Increasingly Intergenerational Workforce in Libraries."
Write the title of the journal you retrieved a specific article from in italics.
Example: Munde, Gail. "Considerations for Managing an Increasingly Intergenerational Workforce in Libraries." Library Trends.
Write the volume and the issue number of the journal you retrieved a specific article from. Make sure you do not use italics.
Example: Munde, Gail. "Considerations for Managing an Increasingly Intergenerational Workforce in Libraries." Library Trends 59.1-2.
Write the year of a journal article's initial publication in parentheses.
Example: Munde, Gail. "Considerations for Managing an Increasingly Intergenerational Workforce in Libraries." Library Trends 59.1-2 (2010).
Write the page number(s) in which a journal article you chose was located on next to that article's year of initial publication.
Example: Munde, Gail. "Considerations for Managing an Increasingly Intergenerational Workforce in Libraries ." Library Trends 59.1-2 (2010): 88-108.
Write the date in which you retrieved a journal article at the end of your citation if that article was retrieved in an electronic format.
Example: Munde, Gail. "Considerations for Managing an Increasingly Intergenerational Workforce in Libraries ." Library Trends 59.1-2 (2010): 88-108. Web. 13 Jan. 2011.