Author. List all authors’ last names first, and use only initials for first and middle names. For more about citing authors, see models 1–5.

Publication date. Enclose the date in parentheses. For journals, use only the year. For magazines and newspapers, use the year, a comma, the month (spelled out), and the day, if given.

Article title. Do not italicize or enclose article titles in quotation marks. Capitalize only the first word of the article title and subtitle and any proper nouns or proper adjectives.

Periodical title. Italicize the periodical title (and subtitle, if any), and capitalize all major words. Follow the periodical title with a comma.

Volume and issue numbers. Give the volume number (italicized) and, without a space in between, the issue number (if given) in parentheses. Follow with a comma.

Page numbers. Give the inclusive page numbers of the article. For newspapers only, include the abbreviation p. (“page”) or pp. (“pages”) before the page numbers. End the citation with a period.

A citation for the periodical article below would look like this:

Etzioni, A. (2006). Leaving race behind: Our growing Hispanic population creates a golden opportunity. The American Scholar, 75(2), 20–30.