APA — Citing articles

Article databases from the library provide APA citation for all their articles, but you'll need to make small changes because they're not perfect.

Tweak your citations so they follow the format below:

Working with author names: 

1 author: Smith, J.

2-20 authors: Alberts, J., Nakayama, T., & Martin, J.

20+ authors: List first 19 authors, ... then final author

Journal or magazine article from a database:

Newspaper article from a database:

• If no page #, leave it out.  If just one page, use p., not pp.