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How to Cite a Journal Article in APA
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APA example for a journal article
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Reference list entry
Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., & Uszkoreit, J. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.
In-text citation
(Vaswani et al., 2017)
No date? It renders like this
Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., & Uszkoreit, J. (n.d.). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.
What you need to cite a journal article
- All authors (the style abbreviates with “et al.” where required)
- Article title
- Journal name
- Year, volume, issue and page range
- DOI, if there is one
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Frequently asked questions
How do I cite a journal article in APA?
Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., & Uszkoreit, J. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30, 5998–6008.
What if the journal article has no author or date?
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