AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION (APA) 7TH EDITION
SAMPLE REFERENCE CITATIONS FOR ABSTRACT OF A Journal article FROM AN ABSTRACT INDEXING DATABASE
*The source of these reference samples is: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
Hare, L. R., & O'Neill, K. (2000). Effectiveness and efficiency in small academic peer groups:
A case study (Accession No. 200010185) [Abstract from Sociological Abstracts]. Small
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Parenthetical citation: (Hare & O’Neill, 2000)
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Narrative citation: Hare and O’Neill (2000)
Although it is preferable to cite the whole article, the abstract can be cited if that is your only
available source.
The foundation of the reference is the same as for a journal article.
If the abstract has a database accession number, place it in parentheses after the title.
Note that you retrieved only the abstract by putting the words “Abstract from” and then the name of
the abstract indexing database in square brackets. Place this bracketed description after the title
and any accession number.
Accession numbers are sometimes referred to as unique identifiers or as publication numbers
(e.g., as PubMed IDs); use the term provided by the database in your reference.
