Reference Machine for Journal Articles - APA style
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Thumb, J. (1996). Language choice: English, Cantonese or mix? Hong Kong Polytechnic University Working Papers in ELT and Applied Linguistics, 2 (2), 37-56 .
Bibliography entry for a Journal Article
(Using the APA style, used by the English Language Centre)
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If you can't find an author's name, for example in a newspaper or magazine, use the title of the newspaper or magazine.
Do not use 'et al.' in bibliographies: quote the names of all the authors and/or editors.
If you don't know which name is the family name and which are the other names:
- Look at the pages in the front of the book for the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. If you see the author's name with a comma after the first word, then that first word is the author's family name.
- Use the library catalogue to search for the title of the book, then look for the author's name.
- Search for the book at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, find the book by its title, then look for the author's family name.
- Check the list of other names.
- If you can't find the information in the sources above, use all of the name.
The author's initials are the first letters of each of the author's other names. For example, if the author is Chan Wai Man, then the initials are W. M.
Last updated on: Tuesday, February 08, 2022