Important: Confirm with your lecturer whether you are using APA 6^th or APA 7^th as they are slightly different.

In-text citations

Paraphrasing

Use only the first listed family name followed by et al. and year of publication.

Direct quote

Place direct quotes between double quotation marks " " and provide the page number(s) from the journal.

Reconstructing the genetic history of Aboriginal Australia is greatly complicated by past government policies of enforced population relocation and child removal that have eroded much of the physical connection between groups and geography in modern Australia" (Tobler et al., 2017, p. 1).

Reference list

TEMPLATE

Author. (Year). Article title. Journal Name, vol(issue), xx–xx. DOI or URL

Tobler, R., Rohrlach, A., Soubrier, J., Bover, P., Llamas, B., Tuke, J., Bean, N., Abdullah-Highfold, A., Agius, S., O'Donoghue, A., O'Loughlin, I., Sutton, P., Zilio, F., Walshe, K., Williams, A. N., Turney, C. S. M., Williams, M., Richards, S. M., Mitchell, ... Cooper, A. (2017). Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia. Nature, 544(7649), 180-184. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21416

• List the first nineteen authors followed by three ellipsis points (. . .) then the last author.
• Give volume number (italics) and issue number (round brackets, no italics). No space between.
• Give page range of article if page numbers are shown (no ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’).
• When including journal articles in the reference list, you must italicise the title of the journal and volume number, and include the digital object identifier (DOI) at the end of the reference (if stated).
• DOI format: DOIs should be presented as hyperlinks beginning with https:// or http://.
• It is not necessary to include the words “Retrieved from” or “Accessed from” before a DOI