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Information You Need

To write a citation for an online article you will need the following pieces of information:

  • Author(s)
  • Publication date (this could be the year, or the year and month)
  • Article title
  • Journal or Magazine title (this is italicized)
  • Volume number (this is italicized)
  • Issue number
  • Page numbers
  • DOI (an assigned alphanumeric sequence given to a journal article to help identify it).

    Not every work has a DOI. Please connect with your instructor about using a url link to content found on a library database and what is acceptable for the assignment.

Anatomy of an article citation

In callouts: Author, Date, Title, Pub info. Citation example

Journals - One Author

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial if Given. (Year of Publication). Title of article: Subtitle if any. Name of Journal, Volume Number(Issue Number), first page number-last page number. https://doi number
Andrys, O. (2011). Proving the pudding: Optimizing the structure of academic development. Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management, 33(5), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2011.605223

Note:

If article does not have a DOI, see note above in the Information You Need box.

Narrative In-text

Author (Date)
Andrys (2011)

Parenthetical

(Author, Date)
(Andrys, 2011)

Journals - Two to Twenty Authors

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial if given., & Author's last name, First initial, Second initial if given. (Year of publication). Title of article: Subtitle if any. Name of Journal,Volume Number(Issue Number), first page number-last page number. https://doi number
Andrys, O., & Brown, S. (2011). Proving the pudding: Optimizing the structure of academic development. Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management, 33(5), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2011.605223

Note:

If article does not have a DOI, see note above in the Information You Need box.

Narrative In-text (2 authors)

Author and Author (Date)
Andrys and Brown (2011)

Parenthetical (two authors)

(Author & Author, Date)
(Andrys & Brown, 2011)

 

 

Narrative In-text (3 or more authors)

First author et al. (Date)
Andrys et al. (2011)

 

Parenthetical (three or more authors)

(First Author, et al., Date)
(Andrys et al., 2011)