Do I put p. or pp. before magazine page numbers in APA 7?

Not in the reference list. APA 7 prints Nicholl as Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100 — no pp. prefix. Use p. or pp. only in an in-text locator when you quote a print page, for example (Lyons, 2009, p. 27). APA 6 used pp. in the reference; that is outdated.

Do I include a volume and issue for every magazine?

Only when the magazine printed them. Lyons includes 153(24) because Newsweek printed that numbering. Schulman's New Yorker web feature omits volume, issue, and pages because those elements are missing. Do not copy a volume a database invented.

What date do I use for a monthly magazine?

Year and month only, as in Nicholl (2020, May). Add the day when the cover or the dated online article shows one, as in Schulman (2019, September 9). Do not copy 16 September from Schulman's URL path. In the text, cite the year only.

How do I cite a magazine article from ProQuest or Academic Search?

Cite the magazine, not the database. If the article has a DOI, use the DOI. If not, include the magazine name and any volume, issue, and pages, then stop — that is the Lyons pattern. Do not write the database name or paste a session link.

Should I cite the print edition or the online edition?

Cite the one you read. Print and web versions can differ in headline, length, and pagination. Print takes pages and no URL. Online takes a DOI or a resolving URL and omits missing pages. Pages plus a DOI is correct; pages plus a second ordinary URL is not.

Is Science a magazine or a journal in APA 7?

APA's own magazine-article page uses Schaefer and Shapiro's weekly Science article as the DOI example, with the 6 September 2019 date, volume 365, issue 6457, pages 981–982, and https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550. Crossref files the same record as a journal article. If your instructor files Science as a journal, keep that reference string; do not drop the month and day.

How do I cite an unsigned magazine article?

Move the article title to the front of the reference and drop the author element. In the text, shorten the title, use title case, and put it in quotation marks: ("Shortened Title," Year). Do not invent a byline or write Anonymous unless the piece is signed Anonymous.

Do I include an access date or "Retrieved from" for an online magazine?

No for an ordinary archived feature. APA 7 dropped "Retrieved from" and does not want the date you opened the tab. Add a retrieval date only when the page is designed to change and is not archived. A typical New Yorker or Newsweek article is archived.

How is a magazine citation different from a newspaper citation in APA 7?

Magazines often include a volume and issue; newspapers almost never do. Magazine pages are usually plain numbers, as in Lyons's 27 or Nicholl's 56–65, 100. Newspaper pages often carry a section letter, as in A1. The New York Times Magazine still uses the newspaper format. Both drop p./pp. in the reference list, and both use a specific date rather than the year alone.

Why is a Vox or CNN story not a magazine citation?

Those sites have no magazine edition. APA 7 §10.16 italicizes the story title and leaves the site name in roman type, as in the official Volpe Vox and Avramova CNN strings. A Newsweek or New Yorker feature italicizes the magazine and leaves the headline in roman type. If you italicize the wrong element, the format is wrong even when every word is accurate.

How to Cite a Magazine Article in APA (7th Edition) [2026]

Quick Answer: How to Cite a Magazine Article in APA

Name the writer, write the year and then as much of the month and day as the issue shows on its cover, put the article title in sentence case, and italicize the magazine. If the issue prints a volume and issue number, add the italic volume and the issue in roman parentheses. If you held a print copy, add the page numbers after that and do not write p. or pp. in the reference. If the article has a DOI, end with https://doi.org/.... If there is no DOI but a URL that still opens for a reader, add that URL. If you recovered the piece from a library database and there is no DOI, stop after the page range — the reference looks like print. In the text, cite the year only.

APA 7 §10.1 magazine templates

Reference, magazine with a DOI:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Magazine, volume(issue), pages. https://doi.org/xxxxx

Reference, print or database magazine with pages:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Magazine, volume(issue), pages.

Reference, online magazine with a resolving URL and no volume or pages:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Magazine. https://xxxxx

Reference, monthly issue (no day on the cover):

Author, A. A. (Year, Month). Title of article. Title of Magazine, volume(issue), pages.

Reference, no byline:

Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of Magazine. https://xxxxx

Parenthetical citation:

(Author, Year)

Narrative citation:

Author (Year)

Parenthetical citation, no byline:

("Shortened Title," Year)

The APA Style magazine page, aligned with Publication Manual and Concise Guide §10.1, states the DOI, database, URL, and missing-pagination tests in four sentences this page follows. The Alamo reprint of that page still carried these four sentences on 29 May 2026.

APA Style on magazine DOIs, databases, URLs, and missing pages

If a magazine article has a DOI, include the DOI in the reference (as in the Schaefer and Shapiro example).

If the magazine article does not have a DOI and is from an academic research database, end the reference after the page range (as in the Lyons example). Do not include database information in the reference. The reference in this case is the same as for a print magazine article.

If the magazine article does not have a DOI but does have a URL that will resolve for readers (e.g., it is from an online magazine that is not part of a database), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference (as in the Schulman example).

If the magazine article does not have volume, issue, and/or page numbers (e.g., because it is from an online magazine), omit the missing elements from the reference (as in the Schulman example).

Magazine vs Newspaper vs Journal vs News Website

APA 7 puts journals, magazines, and newspapers in the same periodical family in §10.1, but the extras change. A magazine often prints a volume and issue and dates the cover by week, month, or season. A newspaper almost never prints a volume, always wants the month and day, and uses section-letter pages such as A1. A journal usually takes the year only and a DOI. CNN, HuffPost, BBC News, Reuters, and Vox are not magazines: they are webpages on a news website under §10.16, so you italicize the story title, not the site name. The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and National Geographic stay magazines even when you read them on the web.

Which APA 7 format the piece actually uses
What you opened	Treat it as	Italicize	End the reference with
Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic	Magazine article (§10.1)	The magazine name and the volume	Volume, issue, and pages when printed, then a DOI or a resolving URL
nytimes.com, a printed broadsheet, a New York Times Magazine feature	Newspaper article (§10.1)	The newspaper name	A resolving URL, or pages such as A1, or the newspaper title
CNN, HuffPost, BBC News, Vox, Reuters.com	Webpage on a news website (§10.16)	The story title	The site name, then the URL
A peer-reviewed journal PDF with a year-only date	Journal article (§10.1)	The journal name and volume	A DOI written as `https://doi.org/...`

The old version of this page treated magazines as newspapers with optional volume numbers and invented 2024–2025 Atlantic, Time, Wired, and Scientific American stories. Those fabricated citations are gone. Use the official APA worked set below. Purdue OWL's periodical list restates the same magazine pattern; this page prefers the strings APA published.

Anatomy of an APA 7 Magazine Reference

Section 10.1 uses the same four elements as every APA reference — author, date, title, source — plus magazine-specific extras: a cover date that may include the month or the day, an italic volume when one is printed, and a four-way choice among DOI, URL, print pages, and a database stop. The APA Style elements of reference list entries page is the general map; the magazine examples supply the extras.

Where each APA 7 magazine element comes from
Element	What to write	Where students go wrong
Author	The byline, inverted, with initials	Writing "Staff Writer," inventing a reporter, or putting the magazine name in the author slot
Date	Year, then month, then day if the cover shows a day	Using only the year on a weekly, inventing a day for a monthly, or copying a date from the URL path
Title	The article title in sentence case, no quotation marks, no italics	Headline-capitalizing the whole title, or wrapping it in quotes as MLA would
Magazine	The cover name in italic title case, including The when the magazine uses it	Writing newyorker.com, dropping The New Yorker's The, or italicizing the article instead
Volume and issue	Italic volume, then the issue in roman parentheses	Inventing a volume from a database record, or italicizing the issue number
Pages	Print page numbers after a comma, no `p.` prefix; discontinuous pages as 56–65, 100	Writing `pp. 56–65` in the reference — that is APA 6
DOI, URL, or stop	A DOI if one exists; otherwise a resolving URL; otherwise nothing after the pages	Pasting a ProQuest session link, adding "Retrieved from," or pairing a DOI with a second URL

Author

Use the name on the byline, inverted, with initials: Schulman, M. Two authors take an ampersand, as in Schaefer, N. K., & Shapiro, B. Three or more authors still appear in the reference (up to 20 names) and collapse to et al. in the text; see how to cite multiple authors. A staff writer who is named is still the author. If there is no byline, move the article title to the author position and see how to cite a source with no author. Do not write "Staff Writer" or "Anonymous" unless the piece is actually signed Anonymous.

Date: match the cover, not the URL path

Match the cover or the dated byline, not the calendar in your head and not the numbers in the address bar. Weekly and dated online magazines use year, month, and day: (2019, September 9). Monthly issues use year and month only: Nicholl's Vanity Fair is (2020, May). Bimonthly covers that print two months can be written (Year, Month/Month). Seasonal issues can use the season. Annual issues can use the year alone. The reference carries that full cover date; the in-text citation does not. Do not use the date you opened the tab. Do not invent a day so the entry looks more complete. If the magazine never dated the piece, that is a no-date problem, not a license to use today's date.

APA Style on how specific the date is, and what the in-text citation keeps

The date in the reference list entry for a work with a publication date may be a year only, and month and year, or a specific date (e.g., a month, day, and year); however, in the in-text citation, provide the year only.

Schulman is the trap students actually hit. The official APA reference dates the feature (2019, September 9). The live New Yorker URL still uses the print-issue path /magazine/2019/09/16/superfans-a-love-story. Copying 16 September from the address bar would invent a different cover date than the one APA published. Cite the byline date the magazine printed, then paste a URL you have tested in a private window.

Schulman: official APA date versus the URL path

Official APA reference (date is 9 September):

Schulman, M. (2019, September 9). Superfans: A love story. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/superfans-a-love-story

Do not rewrite the date from the path:

The path says 2019/09/16. APA still writes (2019, September 9).

Article title

Write the article title in sentence case: capitalize the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns. Leave it in roman type. Do not put quotation marks around it in the reference list; quotation marks appear only in a no-author in-text citation. Keep a subtitle if the magazine printed one. Lyons keeps both sentences after the colon. Thomson's live Newsweek headline is title case; the official APA string lowercases it. For a review or a special-issue note, add a bracketed description after the title.

Magazine name, volume, and issue

Italicize the magazine in title case. Official APA examples keep The when it is part of the cover: The New Yorker. Do not substitute the domain name. If the issue prints a volume number, italicize that number and place the issue in parentheses immediately after it, not italic: 153(24). Many popular magazines never print a volume. If the cover, contents page, and copyright line do not show one, omit it. Do not copy a volume that a database invented so its record looks like a journal.

Pages, DOIs, URLs, and databases

Print pages follow the issue after a comma. Discontinuous pages are a comma-separated list: Nicholl is 56–65, 100. Do not write p. or pp. in the reference — APA 6 did; APA 7 does not. Those abbreviations still appear in in-text locators when you quote a print page. A DOI, when one exists, is written as https://doi.org/... and replaces a URL. The APA Style DOIs and URLs page is the general rule. For a database copy with no DOI, stop after the page range and do not name ProQuest, EBSCO, Lexis, or Gale. An online magazine with no stable pages simply omits them; that is not a missing-page-number emergency unless you are quoting and need a paragraph locator.

APA Style on DOIs, URLs, and "Retrieved from"

Include a DOI for all works that have a DOI, regardless of whether you used the online version or the print version.

If an online work has both a DOI and a URL, include only the DOI.

Because a hyperlink leads readers directly to the content, it is not necessary to include the words “Retrieved from” or “Accessed from” before a DOI or URL.

Official APA Magazine Examples

These three references are the worked set on the APA Style magazine article references page, still matching the Alamo reprint on 29 May 2026. Lyons is a Newsweek piece with volume, issue, and a page, and it is also the database pattern: no database name, no URL. Schaefer and Shapiro is the DOI case; APA places this weekly Science article on the magazine page because it has a specific date plus volume, issue, pages, and a DOI. Schulman is an online New Yorker feature with a resolving URL and no volume, issue, or pages.

APA Style magazine examples (Lyons, Schaefer and Shapiro, Schulman)

Print or database magazine, volume, issue, and page:

Lyons, D. (2009, June 15). Don’t ‘iTune’ us: It’s geeks versus writers. Guess who’s winning. Newsweek, 153(24), 27.

Magazine article with a DOI:

Schaefer, N. K., & Shapiro, B. (2019, September 6). New middle chapter in the story of human evolution. Science, 365(6457), 981–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550

Online magazine, resolving URL, omitted volume and pages:

Schulman, M. (2019, September 9). Superfans: A love story. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/superfans-a-love-story

Parenthetical citations:

(Lyons, 2009; Schaefer & Shapiro, 2019; Schulman, 2019)

Narrative citations:

Lyons (2009), Schaefer and Shapiro (2019), and Schulman (2019)

The current APA Style common reference examples handout, last updated 3 March 2026, repeats the §10.1 magazine pattern with two later official strings: an online Newsweek science feature and a monthly print Vanity Fair story whose pages are not continuous. The live Thomson page, opened for this rewrite, still carries the byline Jess Thomson and the date 8 September 2022. The official APA title is sentence case; the live headline is title case. The URL slug says mysterious-mounds; cite the headline, not the slug.

APA Style instructional-aid magazine examples (Thomson, Nicholl)

Online magazine article (§10.1):

Thomson, J. (2022, September 8). Massive, strange white structures appear on Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-mounds-great-salt-lake-utah-explained-mirabilite-1741151

Print magazine article (§10.1):

Nicholl, K. (2020, May). A royal spark. Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100.

Why APA Puts a Science Paper on the Magazine Page

Schaefer and Shapiro is a two-page Science Perspective, not a pop-science column. Crossref lists it as a journal article: title "New middle chapter in the story of human evolution," volume 365, issue 6457, pages 981–982, published-print 6 September 2019, DOI 10.1126/science.aay3550. APA still files that string on the magazine-article page because the date is specific — year, month, and day — the way a weekly magazine is dated. If your instructor files Science as a journal, the reference string does not change. What changes is only the mental folder. Do not drop the month and day just to make it look more "journal-like."

The News-Website Italic Test

The same 3 March 2026 handout that prints Thomson also prints a Vox story under Webpage on a News Website (§10.16). The live Vox page, opened for this rewrite, still uses the headline "How the self-care industry made us so lonely," by Allie Volpe, dated 3 June 2024. APA italicizes that headline and leaves Vox in roman type. A Newsweek feature does the opposite: roman headline, italic Newsweek. The Style Center news-website page uses the same italic-the-story pattern for CNN. The live Avramova page still carries Nina Avramova and 3 January 2019.

Official news-website strings, not magazine format

Instructional aid, webpage on a news website (§10.16):

Volpe, A. (2024, June 3). How the self-care industry made us so lonely. Vox. https://www.vox.com/even-better/350424/self-care-isolation-loneliness-epidemic

Style Center CNN example (§10.16):

Avramova, N. (2019, January 3). The secret to a long, happy, healthy life? Think age-positive. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/health/respect-toward-elderly-leads-to-long-life-intl/index.html

Compare: same week, magazine format (Thomson):

New York Times Magazine Is Still a Newspaper in APA

The word "magazine" in a URL is not a citation format. The 3 March 2026 handout files Joseph Bernstein's 3 June 2024 New York Times Magazine feature as an Online Newspaper Article (§10.1), not as a magazine article, because the periodical is The New York Times. Italicize the newspaper, keep the headline in roman type, and skip a volume. That is the APA newspaper pattern. Use this page for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair — titles that are magazines first.

Official instructional-aid newspaper string (not a magazine reference)

Online newspaper article (§10.1), from the 3 March 2026 handout:

Bernstein, J. (2024, June 3). The man who couldn’t stop going to college. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/magazine/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html

In-Text Citations and Quotations

The reference carries the cover date. The in-text citation does not. Quote a print story with a page locator and a p. or pp. prefix — that is the one place those abbreviations still belong. Quote an online story with a paragraph number when the site has no stable pages. Two stories by the same author in the same year take letter suffixes on the year in both the reference and the text.

In-text forms for the official magazine examples

Parenthetical:

(Schulman, 2019)

Narrative:

Schulman (2019)

Two authors, parenthetical:

(Schaefer & Shapiro, 2019)

Two authors, narrative:

Schaefer and Shapiro (2019)

Print quotation with a page locator:

(Lyons, 2009, p. 27)

Print quotation, discontinuous pages:

(Nicholl, 2020, pp. 56–65)

Online quotation with a paragraph locator:

(Schulman, 2019, para. 4)

No-byline parenthetical (title case, quotation marks):

("Shortened Title," Year)

Failure Modes Students Actually Hit

No byline

Unsigned briefs and some magazine department notes start with the article title. In the text, shorten that title to a few words, switch it to title case, and put it in quotation marks. Do not invent a writer. Do not credit "Staff." The APA Style missing reference information page is the rule; the Alamo reprint still carries the Anonymous sentence below. The template is labelled as a template because a fabricated unsigned story would be worse than no example. The old Time "regenerative agriculture" line on this page was invented and is gone.

No-byline rule and template, not a real article

For a missing author, do not use “Anonymous” as the author unless the work is actually signed “Anonymous.”

Reference template:

Title of article. (Year, Month Day). Title of Magazine. https://xxxxx

Parenthetical template:

("Shortened Title," Year)

Narrative template:

"Shortened Title" (Year)

Invented volume and issue numbers

Database records often add a volume so every periodical looks like a journal. APA 7 wants the volume the magazine printed, not the one the vendor assigned. The New Yorker online feature in Schulman has no volume in the official reference. Newsweek in Lyons does: 153(24). If you cannot see a volume on the cover, the table of contents, or the copyright line, omit it. Do not harvest one from a library record to look complete.

Writing p. or pp. in the reference list

APA 7 dropped those prefixes for periodical page numbers. Nicholl is Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100 — not pp. 56–65, 100. Use p. or pp. only when you quote a print page in the text, for example (Lyons, 2009, p. 27). The previous edition of this guide still taught pp.; that was APA 6.

Naming the database or pasting a session URL

Cite the magazine, not ProQuest, Academic Search, Nexis Uni, or Gale. Lyons is the official database pattern: title, volume, issue, page, and stop. Do not write "Retrieved from Academic Search Complete." Do not paste a URL that dies when the tab closes. If a public URL will open for readers and there is no DOI, use Schulman's pattern instead.

Print edition versus the same story online

Cite the version you actually read. Online copy is often longer, retitled, or posted on a different day than the print cover. If you held the issue, use Lyons or Nicholl. If you opened a resolving web page and the article has no DOI, use Schulman or Thomson. The old page said never to combine pages and a URL; that was too absolute. Pages plus a DOI is correct — that is Schaefer. Pages plus a second ordinary URL is not, because a DOI already locates the work. Do not cite both editions as if they were one source.

Retrieval dates and "Retrieved from"

A typical magazine article is archived. APA 7 does not want the date you opened the tab, and it dropped "Retrieved from" in front of ordinary DOIs and URLs. Add a retrieval date only when the page is designed to change and is not archived. That is a living webpage problem, not a Vanity Fair or Newsweek archive problem.

Reviews, interviews, and special issues

A signed review still names the reviewer as author. After the review title, add a bracketed description of the reviewed work. APA files reviews in §10.7; the container is still the magazine, so volume, issue, and pages follow the magazine pattern on this page. A published magazine interview uses the interviewer or the form the magazine printed; an unpublished conversation belongs on the APA interview guide. A special issue can carry [Special issue] after the title when you are citing the issue as a whole. The old Psychology Today "digital age" special-issue line was invented. The lines below are labelled templates.

Review and special-issue templates, not invented features

Book review in a magazine, template:

Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of review [Review of the book Title of book, by B. B. Author]. Title of Magazine, volume(issue), pages.

Special issue as a whole, template:

Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year, Month). Title of special issue [Special issue]. Title of Magazine, volume(issue).

Citing a magazine as if it were a newspaper or CNN

Keep volume and issue when the magazine printed them. Do not give The Atlantic a newspaper section letter it does not use. Do not italicize a Newsweek headline the way you italicize a Vox headline. If the site has no magazine edition — CNN, HuffPost, Vox — leave this page and use the news-website format. If the masthead is a daily paper, including The New York Times Magazine, use the APA newspaper guide.

Where the Magazine Prints the Pieces You Need

For a print issue, the cover usually carries the magazine name and the date, the table of contents carries the article title, byline, and pages, and the masthead or copyright line is where a volume and issue hide when they exist at all. For a web feature, the article page carries the byline, date, and title; the site header carries the magazine name; the address bar carries the URL you should test in a private window before you paste it. Then check that URL date against the byline, the way Schulman's /2019/09/16/ path does not match APA's 9 September date.

Cover or issue homepage: magazine title, cover date, sometimes volume and issue
Table of contents: article titles, authors, page numbers
Article byline: the writer you actually put in the author slot
Copyright or masthead line: official volume and issue, if the magazine uses them
DOI registrar or Crossref record: the DOI to write as https://doi.org/... when one exists

Magazine vs Newspaper vs Journal, Side by Side

Use the magazine format when

The cover is a weekly, monthly, or seasonal magazine, print or online
You may have a volume and issue, and you should use them when they are printed
The date is as specific as the cover, not year-only by default
The assignment asked for APA and the source is journalism or a feature, not a study

Use another format when

The site is CNN, Vox, or another news website with no magazine edition
The masthead is a daily or weekly newspaper, including New York Times Magazine
The source is a peer-reviewed journal with a year-only date and a DOI
The assignment asked for Chicago notes instead of APA

Chicago often treats a magazine more loosely in the notes and may omit a volume. APA 7 wants the volume and issue when the magazine printed them, and it wants a reference-list entry for every magazine article you cite. Copying Chicago's note-only habit into an APA psychology paper will look like missing sources. If you are switching styles rather than writing APA, use the Chicago magazine guide.

Build the reference from the byline and the cover

Paste the article URL into the APA generator, or enter the byline, cover date, article title, magazine name, and any volume, issue, and pages in the magazine tool. Then check the four APA 7 tests: DOI first, then a resolving URL, then print pages without p., or a database stop after the page range. Check the byline date against the URL path before you save.

APA citation generator Magazine citation generator Worked magazine-in-APA page

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I put p. or pp. before magazine page numbers in APA 7?: Not in the reference list. APA 7 prints Nicholl as Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100 — no pp. prefix. Use p. or pp. only in an in-text locator when you quote a print page, for example (Lyons, 2009, p. 27). APA 6 used pp. in the reference; that is outdated.
Do I include a volume and issue for every magazine?: Only when the magazine printed them. Lyons includes 153(24) because Newsweek printed that numbering. Schulman's New Yorker web feature omits volume, issue, and pages because those elements are missing. Do not copy a volume a database invented.
What date do I use for a monthly magazine?: Year and month only, as in Nicholl (2020, May). Add the day when the cover or the dated online article shows one, as in Schulman (2019, September 9). Do not copy 16 September from Schulman's URL path. In the text, cite the year only.
How do I cite a magazine article from ProQuest or Academic Search?: Cite the magazine, not the database. If the article has a DOI, use the DOI. If not, include the magazine name and any volume, issue, and pages, then stop — that is the Lyons pattern. Do not write the database name or paste a session link.
Should I cite the print edition or the online edition?: Cite the one you read. Print and web versions can differ in headline, length, and pagination. Print takes pages and no URL. Online takes a DOI or a resolving URL and omits missing pages. Pages plus a DOI is correct; pages plus a second ordinary URL is not.
Is Science a magazine or a journal in APA 7?: APA's own magazine-article page uses Schaefer and Shapiro's weekly Science article as the DOI example, with the 6 September 2019 date, volume 365, issue 6457, pages 981–982, and https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550. Crossref files the same record as a journal article. If your instructor files Science as a journal, keep that reference string; do not drop the month and day.
How do I cite an unsigned magazine article?: Move the article title to the front of the reference and drop the author element. In the text, shorten the title, use title case, and put it in quotation marks: ("Shortened Title," Year). Do not invent a byline or write Anonymous unless the piece is signed Anonymous.
Do I include an access date or "Retrieved from" for an online magazine?: No for an ordinary archived feature. APA 7 dropped "Retrieved from" and does not want the date you opened the tab. Add a retrieval date only when the page is designed to change and is not archived. A typical New Yorker or Newsweek article is archived.
How is a magazine citation different from a newspaper citation in APA 7?: Magazines often include a volume and issue; newspapers almost never do. Magazine pages are usually plain numbers, as in Lyons's 27 or Nicholl's 56–65, 100. Newspaper pages often carry a section letter, as in A1. The New York Times Magazine still uses the newspaper format. Both drop p./pp. in the reference list, and both use a specific date rather than the year alone.
Why is a Vox or CNN story not a magazine citation?: Those sites have no magazine edition. APA 7 §10.16 italicizes the story title and leaves the site name in roman type, as in the official Volpe Vox and Avramova CNN strings. A Newsweek or New Yorker feature italicizes the magazine and leaves the headline in roman type. If you italicize the wrong element, the format is wrong even when every word is accurate.

Quick Answer: How to Cite a Magazine Article in APA

Magazine vs Newspaper vs Journal vs News Website

Anatomy of an APA 7 Magazine Reference

Author

Date: match the cover, not the URL path

Article title

Magazine name, volume, and issue

Pages, DOIs, URLs, and databases

Official APA Magazine Examples

Why APA Puts a Science Paper on the Magazine Page

The News-Website Italic Test

New York Times Magazine Is Still a Newspaper in APA

In-Text Citations and Quotations

Failure Modes Students Actually Hit

No byline

Invented volume and issue numbers

Writing p. or pp. in the reference list

Naming the database or pasting a session URL

Print edition versus the same story online

Retrieval dates and "Retrieved from"

Reviews, interviews, and special issues

Citing a magazine as if it were a newspaper or CNN

Where the Magazine Prints the Pieces You Need

Magazine vs Newspaper vs Journal, Side by Side

Build the reference from the byline and the cover

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