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HLTH 101 Online Module: Scholarly Journals: 4. APA Citation Style

APA Citation Resources

The American Psychological Association (APA) citation style is the most commonly used citation style in the Faculty of Health.  You will need to know how to properly use it to cite your sources in any paper or essay you write.  

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Anatomy of a Citation

There are many components that make up a citation that you must be able to find in an article in order to properly cite your reference. These are:

  1. Author(s) name
  2. Date of publication
  3. Title of the article
  4. Title of the journal
  5. Volume number of the journal
  6. Issue number of the journal (if applicable)
  7. Page range of the article
  8. DOI (Digital Object Identifier assigned to some electronic documents to provide a persistent link to the document)

Most of this information can be found on the first page of the journal article as seen below. 

Journal article with various components highlighted.

APA 7th in Minutes - Scholarly Journal Articles

 

 

APA in Minutes: In text citations