Adhere to general APA format guidelines by double-spacing your article review and setting margins to one inch on all sides. Select a font, such as Times New Roman set at 12-point, according to the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin.
Write an article review to establish support for a larger work, such as a thesis, dissertation or book. Address the article's relevance to your larger topic. Select articles with sufficient legitimacy in your field.
Place parenthetical citations within the text of your review using APA parenthetical citation style. Enter an author's last name and the date of the cited work at the end of a sentence that contains the reference, or immediately after a quote or paraphrase within the sentence. Place author and date at the end in the following way: "Researchers have studied how children represent mathematical problems (Alibali, Phillips, & Fischer, 2009; Siegler, 1976)." See more examples at The University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center.
Create an APA style references list of all sources cited for an article in a journal paginated by volume. An example of a reference entry reads: "Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896."
Enter the author's name using last name first format, using initials for first and middle names. End with a period. Place the date of publication in parentheses, also end with a period. Follow the date with the article title, only capitalizing the first word of the article title. Close with a period. Enter the journal name in italics, capitalizing all major words. Enter a comma followed by the volume number and the page numbers. Close with a period.
The APA style guide covers reference forms in addition to journal articles. Refer to APA for guidelines when citing books, electronic and unpublished references, to name only three types.