This is a PowerPoint on how to cite online journal articles in both APA and MLA format. This presentation was done for my CI 350 class at Marshall University.

2. CITING YOUR PAPER: WHY
We cite papers for several reasons:
1. So that our audiences know where we got our information and that the
statistics and quotes they are reading were not just pulled out of thin air
to make for a better argument.
2. So the people whose statistics and quotes we are using get the credit
they deserve. It wouldn’t really be fair if you got an award for
something you wrote when you actually copied and pasted half of your
essay from a scholarly journal.
3. So teachers can torture their students by making them do a bunch of
things they don’t want to do… kidding!! Kind of.

3. THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF CITATIONS
A PA MLA
We will be dealing But there is also
primarily with MLA format, so
journal articles,
which are cited as here’s an example
follows: of that, too.
Blattner, J., & Bacigalupo, A. (year of Cross, Tracy L. “The Title Goes In Quotes
publication). The title goes here: and Everything is Capitalized Like It
Only capitalize the first letter of is In the Article.” Journal Title is the
each part of the title. The Journal Same, Volume.Issue, (year of
Is Italicized and is Properly publication): page(s). Where you
Capitalized, volume(issue), accessed the source. Date it was
page(s). doi:10.1037/1065- accessed.
9293.59.3.209

4. IN APA, YOU NEED THE DOI… WAIT, WHAT??
The “doi” of an article is its Digital Object Identifier, which lets the
article be found easily.
You can normally find an article’s doi within the publishing information
(author, title, year of publication, etc.), but if not you can always find it
on Google.
There are online citation generators that are often provided by schools,
but I would prefer you use the examples available in our textbook so
you have at least some understanding of how citations and reference
pages work and how they are organized.