14 Reference: Journal Articles

Next, we will use the 4 W’s to look at creating reference citations for the various sources evaluated in the previous chapters. Pay close attention to the punctuation and font emphasis (italic) used.

Step 1: Find the 4 Ws

The 4 Ws for the journal article 

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

The citation for the journal article (click image to see it bigger)

• Author: is the “Last name, Initials.” for each author, with a comma in between, and an ampersand (the sign “&”) before the last author.
  • Authors are always ordered as they appear on the work.
• Date: is the publication date (Year) of the article.
• Title: capitalize the first word of journal article titles and subtitles, the first word following a colon or dash, and all proper nouns.
• Source location: is the Scholarly Journal Title (in Title-Case and italics), Volume number (in italics) and Issue number (in parentheses), the article’s page range, and hyperlinked DOI.
  • Note: The article is part of a larger source (the scholarly journal), so the source is italicized and not the article title.