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EDAD-501 (Lehet)

Research guide for Rider University's graduate students in the "Educational Leadership and Organizational Theory" online hybrid course with Dr. Bonnie Lehet

APA Style

The Reference List contains the following components:

  • author name or names
  • publication date
  • title of the work
  • publication data  (if applicable, name of journal, volume, page numbers)

 

For journal articles:

  • Type the article title in sentence case and journal title in title case.
  • Italicize journal title and volume number
  • Include the issue number in parentheses
  • Include the DOI (digital object identifier) if available, do not place a period after the DOI

Examples

Author, A. & Auther B. (YEAR). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume #(issue number), pages. doi.

Dhar, V. (2024). The paradigm shifts in artificial intelligence. Communications of the ACM67(11), 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1145/3664804

If you accessed the article through a database and it has no DOI, do not include a URL in the citation. 
If you accessed the article directly from a journal's website and it has no DOI, include the URL in the citation. 
Older articles may not have DOIs, so just cite them without one. 
If you think your article has a doi, and you want to find it, see https://guides.rider.edu/doi

The following table shows the basic in-text citation styles:

 

Author type Parenthetical citation Narrative citation

One author

(Luna, 2020)

Luna (2020) 

Two authors

(Salas & D’Agostino, 2020)

Salas and D’Agostino (2020)

Three or more authors

(Martin et al., 2020)

Martin et al. (2020)

Group author with abbreviation

First citation a

Subsequent citations

 

(National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2020)

(NIMH, 2020)

 

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2020)

NIMH (2020)

Group author without abbreviation

(Stanford University, 2020)

Stanford University (2020)

 

When you are directly quoting or using a statistic from a source, it's important to include the page number in your citation

Parenthetical citation (Luna, 2020, p. 23). 

Narrative citation Luna (2020) states that citations are fine (p23). 

 

Source: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/author-date