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APA Style. How to Cite a Magazine Article Steve Poppino CSI Library 6/12/2012. Torn Apart, Pulling Together . By : Dennis, Alicia; Grout, Pam; Foster, J. Todd . People , 3/19/2012, Vol. 77 Issue 12, p64-67, 4p, 5 Color Photographs; Reading Level ( Lexile ): 580.
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APA Style How to Cite a Magazine Article Steve Poppino CSI Library 6/12/2012
Torn Apart, Pulling Together.By: Dennis, Alicia; Grout, Pam; Foster, J. Todd. People, 3/19/2012, Vol. 77 Issue 12, p64-67, 4p, 5 Color Photographs; Reading Level (Lexile): 580 This is how a magazine article citation looks when you copy it from MasterFILE Premier. It needs some work.
Dennis, A., Grout, P., & Foster, J. T. In APA style, start with the author: Last name first, followed by initials. This article has three authors. Type a comma after the first two and the & before the last one.
Dennis, A., Grout, P., & Foster, J. T. (2012, March 19). Next comes the date of the issue of the journal. For a weekly magazine, include the month, day, and year. The year comes first, because it is an important part of in-text citations.
Dennis, A., Grout, P., & Foster, J. T. (2012, March 19). Torn apart, pulling together. Next comes the title of the article. Notice that for this title, only the first word gets a capital letter.
Dennis, A., Grout, P., & Foster, J. T. (2012, March 19). Torn apart, pulling together.People, Next comes the title of the magazine. All the main words are capitalized, and in italics.
Dennis, A., Grout, P., & Foster, J. T. (2012, March 19). Torn apart, pulling together. People, 64-67. Now type the page numbers of the article. No need for the volume and issue numbers for a weekly magazine. If you found this article in a paper copy of People, this is all the information that you need to cite it.
Dennis, A., Grout, P., & Foster, J. T. (2012, March 19). Torn apart, pulling together. People, 64-67. Retrieved from http://www.people.com If you found this article online, either on the People website or in a Library database, finish the citation with the URL of the magazine. It does not matter whether or not you can actually open the article at this website without a subscription. To the APA, this is the “online home” of this article.