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APA 7: Citing an article published in an academic journal.

An APA citation is arranged in a particular way for a scholarly journal article, displayed below in red text. Be sure to pay attention to punctuation and the use of italics for the journal title and volume number. 

Author last name, first initial. (Year). Article title. Journal Title, volume(issue), page numbers. DOI or URL  

Parrigin, J., & Woodall, C. (2022). Sending our faculty to MaRS: The materials request system. College & Research Libraries News, 83(8), 346–353. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.8.346

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