Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Title of the Newspaper, page number if available. doi:xxxxxxxxxx
Example:
McGinn, D. (2010, October 25). How many calories did you burn? Are you sure? The Globe and Mail, p. L3. Retrieved from http://www.theglobeand mail.com.
A DOI is either in the database record or on the first page of the journal article. if the database record does not provide a DOI, you can look it up from Crossref -
If you cannot find a DOI: Provide the URL for the home page of the journal. YOu may have to search the Web to find it.
For additional information on how to find a DOI and how to format your paper and additional citations in APA style, visit the Reading, Writing, and APA Citations Guides for Psychology section.
**Page numbers are required in the in-text citation if you are using a direct quotation (LastName, Year, pg. #).
(LastName, Year)
Example: (Greene, 2010)
(LastName & LastName, Year)
Example: (Scarlett & New, 2007)
LastName, FirstInitial., LastName, FirstInitial., & LastName, FirstInitial. (Year). Title of the article with only the first word and proper nouns capitalized. Title of the Journal in Italics, VolumeNumber(IssueNumber), page number range. doi:xxxxxxxxx
Torabian, S., Haddad, E., Rajaram, S., Banta, J., & Sabat, J. (2009). Acute effect of nut consumption on plasma total polyphenols, antioxidant capacity and lipid peroxidation. Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics, 22, 64-71. doi:10.1111/j.1365-277X.2008.00923.x
LastName, FirstInitial., LastName, FirstInitial., & LastName, FirstInitial. (Year). Title of book with only the first word and proper nouns capitalized: Subtitle of book with only the first word and proper nouns capitalized (edition number). Location: Publisher.
Myers, D.G. (2018). Psychology (12th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers, Macmillan Learning.
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