APA7 Guide

Paraphrase 

Template:

            (Author, Year)

            OR

            Author (Year)

For example:

The importance of diet is central to patient care (Khan et al., 2022).

OR

Khan et al. (2022) positioned diet as being of critical importance to patient care.

Direct quote

Template:

            (Author, Year) - no page number is used

            OR

            Author (Year) - no page number is used

For example:

Given the centrality of human error of issues of hospital diet, this aspect could be "minimized by adapting organizational behavior skills" (Khan et al., 2022).

OR

Given that human error must be taken into account, Khan et al. (2022) recommended that this aspect could be “minimized by adapting organizational behavior skills”.

If the journal article has an article number instead of a page range, include the word "Article" and then the article number instead of the page range.

Template:

Author, A. A. (year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, vol (issue), Article number. http://doi.org/xxxx

For example:

Khan, A., Malik, A., Ahmad, F., & Sadiq, N. (2022). The importance of human factors in therapeutic dietary errors of a hospital: A mixed-methods study. PLoS One, 17(8), Article e0273728. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273728