Differentiating a Book Citation from a Journal Article Citation  

·        Books have a city and state at the end of their citation while journal articles do not.

·        Books have the name of a publishing company at the end of their citation while journal articles do not.

·        Journal article citations end with the page number the article can be found on while book citations do not.

·        Journal articles contain a volume and sometimes issue number while book citations do not.

Book Citation:

Savickas, M. L. (1998). ¹Career style assessment and counseling. ²In T. Sweeney (Ed.), Adlerian counseling: A practitioner's approach (4th ed) (pp. 329-359). ³Muncie, IN: ⁴Accelerated Development Press.

1.      The title of the book chapter

2.      The name of the book where the chapter can be found

3.      Publisher location

4.      Name of the publisher

Article Citation:

Denissen, J. A., van Aken, M. A. G., & Dubas, J. S. (2009). ¹ It takes two to tango: How parents' and adolescents' personalities link to the quality of their mutual relationship. ²Developmental Psychology. ³45,⁴ 928-941.

1.      Title of the article

2.      Journal Title

3.      Volume of the journal (NOTE: sometimes the volume number is followed by a number in parentheses, this is the issue number of the journal)

4.      Page number the article can be found on within the journal publication