14 Creating Reference List Citations: Trade Publications

Step 1: Find the 4 Ws

The 4 Ws for the trade article (there are four slides)

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

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

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: the publication date of the issue in () parentheses, Year-First, followed by the months.
• Title: the article title in sentence-case.
• Source location: the Publication’s Title (in Title-Case and italics), the article page range, and hyperlinked URL.
  • This example has no volume or issue numbers, so they are skipped.

Now try it yourself! 

The Library’s APA Online Guide is a great resource to have on hand for creating reference citations.

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