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CEMS APA 7th edition Referencing Style Guide: Journal Articles

Example

SOURCE: American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000.

Journal Articles

ONE AUTHOR

Betz, N. E. (2023). Integrating 50 years of theory and research: Suggestions for directions on Women’s career development. The Counseling Psychologist, 51(6), 849-861. https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000231176246.

  • It is optional to insert the issue number in brackets next to the volume number. However, always try to make a habit of giving the number when it is available. This facilitates the search of a source in a library, especially when volumes are still unbound. It also covers you as an author if you are uncertain whether issues of the journal are individually or continuously paginated. 

  • Note that it is unnecessary and not customary to include the words "Vol." for volume and "pp," for pages as they are self-evident by appearance. 


TWO AUTHORS

Chen, C. P., & Doherty, H. (2023). Enhancing the career development of rural youth. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 23(1), 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-021-09507-x.


THREE OR MORE AUTHORS

Edwards, A. A., Steacy, L. M., Siegelman, N., Rigobon, V. M., Kearns, D. M., Rueckl, J. G., & Compton, D. L. (2022). Unpacking the unique relationship between set for variability and word reading development: Examining word- and child-level predictors of performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(6), 1242–1256. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000696.

JOURNAL ARTICLE, SAME AUTHOR, DIFFERENT DATES

Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. (1980). The future of criterion-related validity. Personnel Psychology, 33(1), 41-60. 

Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. (1981). Employment testing: Old theories and new research findings. American Psychologist, 36, 1128-1137. 

Note the chronological order by date.


JOURAL ARTICLE, SAME AUTHOR, SAME DATES

Terpstra, D. E. (1981a). The organization development evaluation process: Some problems and proposals. Human Resources Management, 20(1), 24-29. 

Terpstra, D. E. (1981b). Relationship between methodological rigor and reported outcomes in organization development evaluation research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 66(5), 541-543. 

Note the suffixes "a" and "b" next to the year to identify the reference cited.

ONE AUTHOR

Phillips, S. D. (2023). Women and career development: Some new answers, many more questions. The Counseling Psychologist, 51(6), 862-868. https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000231173463


TWO AUTHORS

Lai, Q., & Lee, G. (2023). An exploratory study of the intrinsic mechanisms of occupational stigma consciousness, career development, and work-life balance among female leaders. Sustainability, 15(22), 15945. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215945


THREE OR MORE AUTHORS

Cao, Y., Lee, J., & Waung, M. (2023). Cultivating organizational attraction: A resource view on psychological contracts of career development among interns. Personnel Review, 52(1), 58-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-04-2021-0301


JOURNALS PUBLISHED ANNUALLY

Jones, L. V., & Appelbaum, M. I. (1989). Psychometric methods. Annual Review of Psychology, 40, 23-43. 

Treat annually published series such as the Annual Review of Psychology that have specified, regular publication dates as journals, not books. 


JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT

Regier, A. A., Narrow, W. E., & Rae, D. S. (1990). The epidemiology of anxiety disorders: The epidemiologic catchment areas (ECA) experience. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 24(Suppl. 2), 3-14. 

Give the supplement number in parentheses immediately after the volume number. 


ARTICLE WITH AN ARTICLE NUMBER

Derry, K. (2018). Myth and monstrosity: Teaching indigenous films. Journal of Religion & Film, 22(3), Article 7. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/


ONLINE MAGAZINE

Thomson, J. (2022, September 8). Massive, strange white structures appear on Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-mounds-great-salt-lake-utah-explainedmirabilite-1741151


PRINT MAGAZINE

Nicholl, K. (2020, May). A royal spark. Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100.


MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Living life to the full - in a wheelchair. (October 1997). Essentials, 33-34.  

What stress type are you? (October 1997). Woman's value, 32-33. 

Toerien, W. (September 1997). Great expectations of the classic red blends. Wine, 4(12), 24-28. 


BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Truter, S. (24 September 1997). Klein dinamiet. [Sarie praat met Mary Holroyd]. Sarie, 30-32. 

  • Give the exact date of publication, including month and day (when applicable). 


WEEKLY MAGAZINE

Alfonso, T. (25 September 1997). Ek stap op Diana se laaste roete. Huisgenoot, 8-9, 11.  

  • Give the exact date of publication, including month and day (when applicable). 
  • Note the discontinuous page numbers. 

Latimier, A., Peyre, H., & Ramus, F. (2020). A meta-analytic review of the benefit of spacing out retrieval practice episodes on retention. PsyArXiv. https://psyarxiv.com/kzy7u/.

Articles in Press refer to manuscripts that have been accepted for publication but have not been allocated to a specific journal issue. As a result, they lack details such as date, volume, issue, page numbers, or a DOI.

Employee stress and its relationship to perceived collaboration, task cohesion, and adequacy of staffing. (in press). Consulting psychology journal - practice and research.

  • Do not give a year, a volume, or page numbers until the article is published. In text, use the following parenthetical citation: (Zuckerman & Kieffer, in press). 

  • If another reference by the same author (or same order of authors for multiple authors) is included in the list of references, place the in-press entry after the off press (published) entry. If there is more than one in-press reference, list the entries alphabetically by the first word after the date element, and assign lower-case letter suffixes to the date element (e.g. in press-a). 

Hambleton, R. K., & Van der Linden, W. J. (Eds.). (1982). Advances in item response theory and applications [Special issue]. Applied Psychological Measurement, 6(4). 

When citing an entire issue of a journal, for example a special issue, give the editors of the issue and the title of the issue. If the issue has no editors, move the issue title to the author position. 

Brown, S. (April/May 1992). The spirit of South Africa. Habitat, 109, 223-224, 226, 228. 

Give all the page numbers on which the article appears whenever page numbers are discontinuous as is the case here. 

Sackett, P. R. (1989). I/O Psychology: The state of the practice. Psychological Abstracts, 76, 17332. 

  • Give the abstract number, rather than the page number. 

  • If the title of the journal does not include the word "Abstracts", place "Abstract" in brackets after the title. 

Baje, A. O. (2023, Oct 16). Nigerian universities and the brain-drain challenge. The Guardian. https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/nigerian-universities-brain-drain-challenge/docview/2877543825/se-2

  • When an article has no author, move the title to the author position. 

  • In text, use a short title for the parenthetical citation.

Battig, W. F., & Montague, W. E. (1969). Category norms for verbal items in 56 categories: A replication and extension of the Connecticut category norms. Journal of Experimental Psychology Monographs 80(3, Pt.2). 

  • Give the issue number and supplement or part number in parentheses immediately after the volume number. 

  • When the monograph is bound into a journal with continuous pagination, just insert the word "Monograph" in brackets between the title and the journal name. 

NON-ENGLISH JOURNAL ARTICLE, TITLE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH 

Zajonc, R. B. (1989). Bischofs gefühlvolle Verwirrunggen über the Gefühle [Bischof's emotional fluster over the emotions]. Psychologische Rundschau, 40, 218-221. 

  • If the original version of a non-English article is used as the source, cite the original version. Give the original title, and in brackets, the English translation. 

  • Use diacritical marks and capital letters for non-English words as done in the original language (umlauts and capitals for the nouns in this example). 


ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A JOURNAL ARTICLE, JOURNAL PAGINATED BY ISSUE.

Stutte, H. (1972). Transcultural child psychiatry. Acta Paedopsychiatrica, 38(9), 229-231. 

  • If the English translation of a non-English article is used as the source, cite the English translation. Give the English title without brackets. 

Acknowledgement

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