The author(s) name(s), publication year, article title, journal name, volume and issue number, page range of the article, and a DOI are all included in an APA Style citation for a journal article (if available). To learn more about the format, click on the links below. Citations are references to other studies or papers that we use when writing essays or articles. They are also called bibliographies or reference lists. There are several different styles of citations, depending on how much information you want to include. For example, you could include only the date cited along with the author's last name and the title of the work being referenced, or you could include the entire paper itself.