15 Reference: Professional Articles

Step 1: Find the 4 Ws

The 4 Ws for the professional article

Step 2: Arrange the 4 Ws in the correct order and with the correct formatting.

The citation for the professional article:

The example above is an article in a trade publication accessed through its online version on an open website.

• Author: the article’s individual author, as always last name followed by initials.
• Date: for works published more frequently, the publication date format is year, month and day.
• Title: the article title in sentence-case.
• Source location: the Publication’s Title (in Title-Case and italics) and hyperlinked URL.
  • This example has no volume or issue numbers, so they are skipped.