APA 7th Citation Guide

eMagazines and eTrade Publications refer to magazines and trade publications published online.Trade publications are journals aimed at a professional audience. 

Like academic journals, both eMagazines and trade pubs typically list a volume number and an issue number, or they could list a month or a season.

Important Note: More and more magazines are also publishing bonus articles on their website. These are articles that are not part of the magazine issue for the month. You cite these types of articles in a different way from eMagazine articles. To cite these types, see Online News Websites.

General Guidelines

• Ensure your punctuation is correct

  • eMagazine article title: Write the title in sentence case.
  • eMagazine title: In italics and in title case, e.g. The New Yorker.

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

• Be aware of missing information

  • You might come across eMagazine articles that display volumes and issue numbers, and others don't.
  • For the ones that don't, double-check by searching for the article title in GALILEO. Omit the volume and issue number if it is unavailable in the GALILEO record.

• No DOI?  Insert the stable URL to the article - not to the database link - after the eMagazine title: 
  • If you found the article on the web, find the stable URL to the article. If a stable URL does not appear in the address bar, then find a "Share" or "Email" button for the article to see if you can obtain the friendly URL that way.
  • If you found the article in a library database, then end the reference after the page number.  

Format

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day of publication). Title of article in sentence case. Title of Magazine in Headline Case, Volume #(issue #), p.#-p.#. http://xxxxx - the url of the magazine article not the database link

Examples

Leonard, J. N. (2019, July 1). Leaning in while finding balance. Public Management, 101(6), 8-11. https://icma.org/articles/pm-magazine/leaning-while-finding-balance-0

Altieri, J. A. (2020, March 1). Government girls: Crowd sourcing aircraft in World War II. Air Power History, 67(1), 19-26. https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/APH-Spring-2020-Issue-With-Cover-1.pdf

Citing In-Text: Example of one of the references

(Leonard, 2019)  OR Leonard (2019).

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

Format

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day of publication). Title of article in sentence case. Title of Magazine in Headline Case, Volume #(issue #), p. # - p. #. http://doi.org/xxxxx - the url of the magazine article not the database link

Examples

Walls, M., Lee, P., & Ashenfarb, M. (2020, March 18). National monuments and economic growth in the American West.  Science Advances, 6(12). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay8523

Heitman, J. (2019, September). E pluribus unum: The fungal kingdom as a rosetta stone for biology and medicine. Genetics, 213(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.119.302537

Citing In-Text

(Walls et al., 2020)  OR Walls et al. (2020).

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

For more examples on how to reference magazine articles, consult the following section in the APA 7th ed. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: The Official Guide to APA Style:

Section 10.1 Periodicals, 15. Magazine article

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Magazine Article