APA Style - 6th edition 

Journal Articles 

A few general rules about creating journal article citations in APA style:

• Always include author, year of publication, article title, journal title and publishing date (volume, issue & page numbers)
• If no author exists for a piece, unless it is specifically signed Anonymous, do not use anonymous as the author. Simply move the title of the journal article to the place of the author.
• Always give both volume number and issue number.
• When citing an electronic journal article, a DOI is preferable to a URL. (what is a DOI?)
• If no DOI exists and you retrieve an electronic version of the article, include the URL of the for the home page of the journal.
• If citing a print journal article, and there is a DOI on the first page of the article, include the DOI in the citation.
• After a DOI or URL in a citation, there is no ending punctuation.

Please note: If you access an article online, it is an electronic version.  Even if you print the article out, it is still considered the electronic version, and should be cited as such.

What type of journal article do you have?

• Print journal article - DOI
• Print journal article - no DOI
  
• Electronic journal article - DOI (what is a DOI?)
• Electronic journal article - no DOI

Example:

Wan, P. T. C., Garnett, M. J., Roe, S. M., Lee, S., Niculescu-Duvaz, D., Good, V. M., ... Marais, R. (2004).
     Mechanism of activation of the RAF-ERK signaling pathway by oncogenic mutations of the B-RAF.
     Cell, 116(6), 855-867. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(04)00215-6   

If you have more questions about authors in citations, see the APA 6th Edition - Citing Authors quick guide.

Print journal article - DOI

Carey, K. B., Scott-Sheldon, L. A. J., Carey, M. P., & DeMartini, K. S. (2007). Individual-level interventions to
     reduce college student drinking: A meta-analytic review. Addictive Behaviors, 32(11), 2469-2494. 
     doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.05.004

Print journal article - no DOI

Page, M. E., & Spicer J. (1981). Aids and services for disabled people - getting the message across.
     Applied Ergonomics, 12(4), 223-230.

Wadee, A. A., Kuschke, R. H., Kometz, S., & Berk, M. (2001). Personality factors, stress and immunity.
     Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 17(1), 25-40.  

Electronic journal article - DOI (see information on DOIs) 

Aguilar, C. M., Morocco, C. C., Parker, C. E., & Zigmond, N. (2006). Middletown High School: Equal opportunity
     for academic achievement. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 21(3), 159-171.
     doi:10.1111/j.1540-5826.2006.00215.x

Bollingmo, G. C., Wessel, E. O., Eilertsen, D. E., & Magnussen, S. (2008). Credibility of the emotional witness:
     A study of ratings by police investigators. Psychology, Crime & Law, 14(1), 29-40.
     doi:10.1080/10683160701368412

Constanigro, M., McCluskey, J. J., & Mittelhammer, R.C. (2007). Segmenting the wine market based on price:
     Hedonic regression when different prices mean different products. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58
     (3), 454-466. doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2007.00118.x 

Electronic journal article - no DOI

Except for the use of the URL of the journal homepage, the citation of an electronic journal article is exactly the same as a citation for a print journal article with no DOI (see above).  Please note that the journal home page is not the URL of the article you retrieved, nor is it the homepage of the UNC Libraries. To find the journal homepage, you can try these steps:

1. Google the name of the journal with quotations around the title.  Example: "behavioral sciences & the law"
2. Use the Ulrichsweb database to find the URL of the journal homepage.  Ulrichsweb is listed under the "Articles & More" section of the library website (http://library.unco.edu).
3. Email me - my email link is in the right-hand column of this page.

Deitz, S. R., & Sissman, P. L. (1984). Investigating jury bias in a child molestation case. Behavioral Sciences
     & the Law, 2(4), 423-434. Retrieved from http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-BSL.html

De Muro, P., & Gabrysch, L. (2007). A survey of new developments in tax-exemption law: What compliance
     officers need to know. Journal of Health Care Compliance, 9(6), 15-61. Retrieved from http://health.cch.com/
     products/ProductID-2967.asp

Dybvik, A. C. (2004). Autism and the inclusion mandate: What happens when children with severe disabilities
     like autism are taught in regular classrooms? Daniel knows. Education Next, 4(1), 42-49. Retrieved
     http://educationnext.org/