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Citing and referencing

Everything you need to know about referencing with links to guides and support.

Periodicals (Journals, Magazines, Newspapers)

References for periodicals’ articles should include the following elements: author(s), date of publication, article title, journal title, volume number, issue number (if available), and page number(s). In case accessed online and has an assigned DOI number, include it at the end, after the pages. If no DOI is assigned, add the exact URL.


Basic format

 Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy-zzzz.xx 

Journal Article

Journal Article, in Print

Chan, M.-K., & Benner, A. D. (2025). A consideration of racial/ethnic diversity conceptualization and measurement: Clarifying ambiguity and advancing scholarship. Educational Psychologist, 60(2), 69–87.


Journal Article, Accessed Online

Klimt, G. (2023). Medicine. Academic Medicine, 98(6), 688. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ACM.0000942700.09397.93


Journal Article, Multiple authors

  • 21 authors or less: Cite all the authors.

Jiang, T., Lam, P., Brody, E., Germer, S., Wang, L., Miller, G., & Chen, E. (2024). Chronic stress and adiposity in youth-parent dyads: An actor-partner interdependence analysis. Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001412 

 

  • 21 authors or more: Cite the first 20 authors followed by … and the last name and initials of the last author.

Nath, A. P., Ritchie, S. C., Grinberg, N. F., Tang, H. H., Huang, Q. Q., Teo, S. M., Ahola-Olli, A. V., Wurtz, P., Havulinna, A. S., Santalahti, K., Pitkanen, N., Lehtimaki, T., Kahonen, M., Lyytikainen, L. P., Raitoharju, E., Seppala, I., Sarin, A. P., Ripatti, S., Palotie, A., . . . Inouye, M. (2019). Multivariate genome-wide association analysis of a cytokine network reveals variants with widespread immune, haematological, and cardiometabolic pleiotropy. American Journal of Human Genetics, 105(6), 1076-1090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.10.001


Magazine Article

Pearl, R., & Wayling, B. (2022, May). The telehealth era is just beginning. Harvard Business Review, 100, 95. https://go.exlibris.link/0L1Z9twl


Newspaper Article

Psychology: VCE achievers 2023 (2023, 12 December). The Age (Melbourne, Vic.) https://go.exlibris.link/t9WCSJmc