Scholarly articles have a rather standard format. Knowing how they're arranged will help you as you're reading for information or if you're writing your own article,
Click on the image to interact with the document and learn about the parts of a scholarly article.
This image distinguishes citations for books, book chapters and online journal articles from each other. The citations below are in the syle of APA 7th edition, but the elements you should look out for (authors, editors, publication information...) will be present in some form in most common citation styles.
updated 8/2023
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