APA 7th Citation Guide

Informally published articles and reports from a preprint archive, institutional repository, or a database may either be the author's final, peer-reviewed manuscript as accepted for publication or may not be peer-reviewed. For instance, our reference example of Bomgaars & Bachelor (2020) is peer-reviewed, but Castro et al. (2019) is not.

If you are expected to include peer-reviewed sources, ensure that the informally published article is peer-reviewed. 

General Guidelines

• Ensure your punctuation is correct

  • Article/report title: Post title in sentence case in italics.  
  • Archive, repository, or database you found the article or report: In regular font, in title case.

• Ensure your formatting is correct
  • ​Follow our red format structure and view our examples in black. E.g., Look at the elements of the reference we have italicized. You also italicize that same element in your reference.

• Retrieval information: If the informally published article has:
  • DOI: Insert the DOI after the source title. Ensure the DOI takes you to the article you found, e.g. the preprint, not to the formally published version. 
  • No DOI: Insert the URL to the article record after the source title in the format of http://xxxxx

Format

Informally published article with DOI

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article in sentence case. Title of Repository or Digital Archive in Title Case. https://doi.org/xxxx

Informally published article without DOI

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article in sentence case. Title of Repository or Digital Archive in Title Case. https:/xxxx

Examples

Informally published article with DOI

Castro, A. R., Marinello, J., Chougui, K., Morand, M., Bilodeau, C., & Tsimicalis, A. (2019). The day-to-day experiences of caring for children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A qualitative descriptive study. MedRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/19007187 

Informally published article without DOI

Allen, K. J. D., Sammon, M. M. Fox, K. R., & Stewart, J. D. (2019). Emotional response inhibition: A shared neurocognitive deficit in eating disorder symptoms and nonsuicidal self-injury. Preprints. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201912.0193/v1

​

Citing In-Text

(Allen et al., 2019)  OR Allen et al. (2019) 

For more detailed guidelines on in-text citations go to our Citing In-Text tab.

Format

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article in sentence case. Database Name In Title Case. https://doi.org/xxxx

OR

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article in sentence case. Database Name in Title Case. https:/xxxx

Examples

Zielinski, M. J., & Veilleux, J. C. (2019). The Perceived Invalidation of Emotion Scale (PIES): Development and psychometric properties of a novel measure of current emotion invalidation. PubMed Central. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212305/

Citing In-Text

(Zielinski & Veileux, 2019)  OR Zielinski and Veilux (2019) 

For more detailed guidelines on in-text citations go to our Citing In-Text tab.

Specific Guidelines

• The difference between ERIC and other academic research databases is that ERIC assigns document numbers to the works. Place the number in parentheses after the title of the work.

• Insert the URL to the PDF (first preference), or HTML full-text.

Format

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of article in sentence case (ERIC No.). ERIC. https://xxxx



Examples

Bomgaars, J., & Bachelor, J. W. (2020). Visual thinking strategies: Exploring artwork to improve output in the L2 classroom (ED597593). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED597593.pdf

Citing In-Text

(Bomgaars & Bachelor, 2020) OR Bomgaars & Bachelor (2020) 

For more detailed guidelines on in-text citations go to our Citing In-Text tab.

For more details and examples on how to reference informally published works, including types not covered here, consult the following section in the APA 7th Publication Manual:

Section 10.8 Unpublished Works and Informally Published Works 73 - 74. 

Augusta University provides free access to EndNote citation management tool students, faculty, and staff.

If you use EndNote to input your references, then choose the reference type underneath. If you export or import your citations, then check that EndNote automatically categorized them to the below reference type. Edit the reference type if it is incorrect.  

Reference Type: Electronic Article