 How to reference journals, printed and electronic in APA. Professional journals are often excellent sources to add credibility to your writing. Here is the information you need to reference journals in your work. Author's name, article title, journal name, year of publication, volume, issue, page numbers, the URL or DOI for electronically accessed journals. What is a DOI? A DOI or digital object identifier is a character string that identifies an electronically stored source. It is more stable than a URL and is therefore a preferred way of making reference to the source in academic writing. Here is an example of a DOI. Where can you find the above information? For printed journals, you will find most of the information on the cover and within the contents page. For electronic journals, you should click in the appropriate link. For the journal of applied psychology, for example, you click on the link, view table of contents and online first publication. How to create your journal entry in the reference list. Put the family name first followed by a comma and the initials followed by full stops. Then insert the year in brackets followed by a full stop. Then insert the article title and subtitle, if any, followed by a full stop. Insert a colon between the title and any subtitle. It is important to note that only the first letter of the title is capitalised and any proper nouns or acronyms. Then insert the name of the journal title in italics with each word capitalised and the volume number also in italics. Note that for grammar words like articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs etc. you should not capitalise. Then add the issue number in brackets. This is not in italics. Then insert the page numbers of the articles followed by a full stop. If the article is from an electronic version of the journal, you then add the DOI or URL. Remember to indent the second and subsequent lines of your end of text reference list. I hope you found this video useful and for more information on APA referencing, click on the link below.