SOC 103 - Naffziger-Hirsch - Fall 2025

APA citations for magazine and journal articles follow the same format.  Two examples are given below.

Remember, there are two parts for most citations:

1. an in-text citation in your paper 
2. a full citation on your References page
    

APA Citation - Direct Quote from an article

• In-Text Citation in your paper for a direct quote from the article.
  • The author wrote,"Developmental research has shown that preschoolers are able to infer power from nonverbal features" (Charafeddine et al., 2020).
     
• Full Citation on your References page
  • Charafeddine, R., Zambrana, I. M., Triniol, B., Mercier, H., Clément, F., Kaufmann, L....Van der Henst, J.-B. (2020). How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Sex Roles, 83(7/8), 453–473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-019-01116-x

APA Citation - Paraphrase or summary from an article with no author

• In-Text Citation in your paper for a paraphrase of information from the article.
  • Parents often push sons to work in STEM careers but don't encourage their daughters in the same way ("Early Gender Gaps," 2015).     
      (Use the first few words of the article title when there is no author information)
     
• Full Citation on your References page
  • Early gender gaps drive career choices and employment opportunities. (2015). Education Journal, 227, 19.

You can find more information on APA citations from the Purdue OWL online citation guide.  And the Oakton Librarians are also glad to answer your questions about citations in person or with the Library online chat Ask Library.

Quick Hints for a List of APA Citations

• List your citations on a new page at the end of your paper.
• References - Use References as the title for your list of citations (not Citations, Bibliography or Works Cited)
• Citations are organized alphabetically by the last name of the author of your article, book or other source.
       (Check the APA How Do I Deal With...? page if you don't have an author)
• Citations are formatted with a hanging indent.  Watch the Setting Up the APA List of Citations video for "how-to" instructions on how to properly format citations in Google Docs.

ChatGPT or other large language models (LLM)

Format:

Author(s) of language model. (Date - year of the version you used). Title - name of the LLM. (Version of model) [Brackets for additional descriptions]. Source if different from Author. URL

Example:

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat.

APA indicates that it might be useful to think of these like personal communications, but we are sharing an algorithm's output, not a person's.  You may also consider putting a long response from ChatGPT into an Appendix in your paper, or online supplemental materials, so the reader can refer to the appendix when reading the quote from ChatGPT in your work.

In-text Citations

• Parenthetical citation: (OpenAI, 2023)
• Narrative citation: OpenAI (2023)

College of DuPage Library. (2025, Sept.26). APA: Electronic Sources.  https://library.cod.edu/citing/apa/electronic

IRSC Libraries (2020, May 13). APA References Formatted in Google Docs. [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ixOv3e4C6KY?si=z3TvkT2PH-Dlftj5