How to Cite Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper References in APA style

Many styles of citing references and documentation are used by many authors and publishers. We got Turabian, ACS, Chicago, MLA, APA, and more. I will be discussing here the American Psychological Association (APA) style. APAs latest Publication Manual (6th Edition) was released last July 2009. But the downside is, the book contains some 19 pages of errors. Anyway, the publisher issued some correction in their blog, which, when I came to read, made it more confusing. So let's skip it. The errors are not really major items, at least for me.


There has been a lot of changes and differences of the APA style since the 5th edition. Most of the pages and sites that I have visited which summarize the necessary points of the APA style still follow the 5th edition format, which was published last 2001.


Here are some of the commonly used APA citation rule, taken from the 6th edition.


JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS IN PRINT FORMAT
General Form

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, xx, xxx-xxx.

NOTE: The journal title and the volume number are in italics. Issue numbers are not required if the journal is continuously paged. If paged individually, the issue number is required and is in regular type in parentheses adjacent to the volume number.

One Author
Baywang, E. J. (2007). Mind Mapping: Improving Oral Participation in Class. Teen Education, 53(12), 40-45.

Two to Seven Authors [List all authors]
Mamords, H. W., Baki, T. R., & Cox, M. E. (2000). Approaching Senior Year: A Process of adjustment to near professional life. The Teen Journal, 81, 453-484.

Eight or More Authors [List the first six authors, … and the last author]
Wallop, S. A., Bultig, S. G., Maya-maya, I. N., Ten, J.-Y., Bangkaw, D., Dila, L.,...Grinich, W. A. (2000). An evaluation of patient-controlled therapy patterned to Roy's Adaptation theory. Pulantubig Journal of Nursing, 68, 843-856.

Magazine Article
Mathews, J., Markus, D., & San Juan, D. (2009, February 16). Generation X today. Newsmonth, 145(20), 58-59.

Newspaper Article with No Author and Discontinuous Pages
Light of the World. (2001, August 5). The Dumaguete Times, pp. A1, A4.

(Note: all succeding lines are indented.)