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CMNS 101 Fundamentals of Communication

Public Speaking Research Guide

Three minute video that explains APA citation

APA Citation Examples

Newspaper articles from a website examples

Willis, A. & Zhu, A. (2024, August 8). As opioid deaths plague Baltimore, the city’s strategy is silence. The Baltimore

Banner. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/local-government/opioid-deaths-city-hall-silence

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Magazine article from a database (with a DOI)

DiChristina, M. (2018). Depths of Space, Oceans and Politics. Scientific American, 318(2), 3. https://doi-

org.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0218-3

Newspaper article from a database

De Vynck, G., & Izadi, E. (2023, December 27). New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over use of articles to train AI. The

Washington Post.

Journal article from a database

Nayak, S. S., Fraser, T., Panagopoulos, C., Aldrich, D. P., & Kim, D. (2021). Is divisive politics making Americans sick?

Associations of perceived partisan polarization with physical and mental health outcomes among adults in the

United States. Social Science & Medicine, 284. https://doi- org.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.

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Journal article from a website (non-database)

Riches, S., Azevedo, L., Bird, L., Pisani, S., & Valmaggia, L. (2021). Virtual reality relaxation for the general population: a

systematic review. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 56, 1707-1727.

Video from YouTube 

Above The Noise. (2017, October 18). Can procrastination be a good thing? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FQMwmBNNOnQ 

Website citation examples

American Psychological Association. (2020, March 2). APA reaffirms psychologists’ role in combating climate change [Press

release]. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/combatingclimate-change

Chandler, N. (2020, April 9). What’s the difference between Sasquatch and Bigfoot? howstuffworks.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/sasquatch-bigfootdifference.htm

Mena, B. (2024, August 8). Mortgage rates plunge to lowest level in more than

a year. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/economy/mortgage-rates-to-lowest-level-since-may-2023/index.html

eBook from a website

Candela, I. and J. Pillsbury (2023). Weaving abstraction in ancient and modern art. Metropolitan Museum of

Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/weaving-abstraction

Book with a DOI

Kaufman, K. A., Glass, C. R., & Pineau, T. R. (2018). Mindful sport performance enhancement: Mental training for athletes and

coaches. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000048-000

With APA style, if the information resource that you are citing is not a traditional article or book, often you can use brackets [ ... ] to describe what the resource is. This is helpful when the title of the resource does not make the resource type obvious. This could be an interview, a piece of art, a film, a podcast, or an infographic, as shown below. 

Film

Docter, P., & Del Carmen, R. (Directors). (2015). Inside out [Film]. Walt Disney Pictures; Pixar Animation Studios. 

Podcast

Santos, L. (Host). (n.d.) Psychopaths and superheroes (No. 1) [Audio podcast episode]. In The happiness lab with Dr. Laurie

Santos. Pushkin Industries. https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-2-episodes/ episode-1 

Infographic

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Data sharing [Infographic]. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/