Answered By: Jon Allinder
Last Updated: Dec 15, 2020     Views: 43479

In APA 7 you do not need the journal homepage when you cite an article without a DOI.

 

Searching the internet is the best way to find a journal's URL, or the web address for its homepage.

  • The journal's homepage is where you find information about the journal online from the publisher, including author and submission policies and guidelines.
  • You typically can't access full text articles for free from the journal.

Here's an example for the journal Teaching Exceptional Children.

  1. Go to Google, Yahoo, or another internet search engine and search for the journal name, like this:
     

    "Teaching Exceptional Children" journal

    Search Tips: It is helpful to include the word journal in the search if it is not part of the journal name. Put the title in quotation marks to search for that exact phrase. 

  2. Look at the results to determine which result is the journal's homepage.
  3. Click the journal's homepage in the search results. Copy and paste the web address, or URL, as needed.

 For "Teaching Exceptional Children"  the URL is:

http://journals.sagepub.com/home/tcx

 

 

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