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• Author names are listed lastname, then initials, with each author separated by a comma. The last author is separated from the others with an ampersand (&).
• Article and book titles should be in sentence case, which means the first word and any proper nouns are capitalized, but nothing else.
• Journal publication titles are in title case (every word is capitalized), and in italics.
• Titles for government reports should be in sentence case an in italics.
• The DOI number (if using one) is in URL format, starting with https://doi.org/xxxxx

Here is an example of a journal article in APA format:

Viner, R., Russell, S., Saulle, R., Croker, H., Stansfield, C., Packer, J., Nicholls, D., Goddings, A.L., Bonell, C., Hudson, L., Hope, S., Ward, J., Schwalbe, N., Morgan, A., & Minozzi, S. (2022). School closures during social lockdown and mental health, health behaviors, and well-being among children and adolescents during the first COVID- 19 wave: a systematic review. JAMA Pediatrics, 176(4), 400–409. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.5840Links to an external site.

Parenthetical citation: (Viner et al., 2022)

Here is a government website:

National Cancer Institute. (2019). Taking time: Support for people with cancer (NIH Publication No. 18-2059). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/takingtime.pdfLinks to an external site.

Parenthetical citation: (National Cancer Institute, 2019)

And here is a point of care database: 

Dynamed (2022, June 28). Diabetes mellitus type 2 in children and adolescents​. EBSCO. Retrieved October 21, 2022 from www.dynamed.comLinks to an external site.

Parenthetical citation: (Dynamed, 2022)