If you cite a journal article or magazine article with one author, the citation should look like this.
When referencing a journal article or magazine article, you should follow this pattern:
Author(s). (Year). Title of article. Journal/magazine title (in full), volume number, (issue number), page numbers.
Jones, P. (2011). Revisit: Reframing Park Hill. Architectural Review, 230(1376), 83-93.
You will usually find the relevant information on the first page of the article.
Examples in this table are selected to show how to cite and reference names. The approach to names is the same for all types of reference and you will see different types of reference from the main example at the top of the page.
| Citation | Reference | |
|---|---|---|
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One author Cite and reference the author |
Phillips (2006) or (Phillips, 2006) |
Philips, D. (2006). Quality of life: Concept, policy and practice. London: Routledge. |
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Two authors Cite and reference both authors |
Kimball and Ross (2002) or (Kimball & Ross, 2002) |
Kimball, R., & Ross, M. (2002). The data warehouse toolkit: The complete guide to dimensional modeling. New York: Wiley. |
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Three, four or five authors Cite all authors in the first citation.
Subsequent citations should include the first author followed by et al. In your reference include all the authors. |
Bott, Coleman, Eaton and Rowland (2001) or (Bott, Coleman, Eaton & Rowland, 2001) Bott et al. (2001) or (Bott et al., 2001) |
Bott, F., Coleman, A., Eaton, J., & Rowland, D. (2001). Professional issues in software engineering (3rd ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. |
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Six or seven authors Cite the first author followed by et al. and in your reference include all the authors. |
Shepperd et al. (2009) or (Shepperd et al., 2009) |
Shepperd, S., Doll, H., Gowers, S., James, A., Frazel, M., Fitzpatrick, R., & Pollock, J. (2009). Alternatives to inpatient mental health care for children and young people. The Cochrane Library, (2), article number CD006410. |
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Eight of more authors Cite the first author followed by et al. In your reference, include the first six authors, followed by ... then add the last author. |
Mali et al. (2013) or (Mali et al.,2013) |
Mali, P., Yang, L., Exvelt, K., Aach, J., Guell, M., Dicarlo, J., ... Church, G. (2013). RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9. Science, 339(6121), 823-6. |
Editors
Follow the pattern above for when you have an editor or editors of a work; just remember that in your reference you need to identify them as an editor by putting (Ed) or (Eds) after all of the editors in the reference.
A source can be written by a corporate author such as an organisation or a company, also known as a group author. The corporate author and year should be used in the citation.
| Citation | Reference |
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2013) or (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2013) | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2013). Free school meals announcement - JRF response. Retrieved from: https://www.jrf.org.uk/press/free-school-meals-announcement-jrf-response |
For instances of more than one corporate authors of a source, treat them as you would two individuals in the reference (i.e., include both). The group author names should not be shortened in the text citation. However, if they are used repeatedly, you might introduce an abbreviation.
If you cannot identify the author(s) of a source, cite it by title and list it under the title in your reference list.
| Citation | Reference | |
|---|---|---|
| Whole work (book) | Dictionary of sports science (2006) or (Dictionary of sports science, 2006) | Dictionary of sports science (2006). London : A. and C. Black. |
| Part of work (chapter, article, document) | "Jennifer & Joshua's Star wars suite" (2016) or ("Jennifer & Joshua's Star wars suite", 2016) | Jennifer & Joshua's Star wars suite (2016). In The modern wedding : From graphics to styling. Berkley CA : Gingko Press. |
