APA 7th Edition

Research Article Activity

Step 1: Finding a Research Article ( THIS IS THE ARTICLES)

Mitchell, G., & McCambridge, J. (2023, January). Interactions Between the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Alcohol Industry: Evidence FromEmail Correspondence 2013-2020. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 84(1), 11- 26.https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.22-00184

Mitchell, G., & McCambridge, J. (2023, January). Interactions Between the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Alcohol Industry: Evidence FromEmail Correspondence 2013-2020. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 84(1), 11- 26.https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.22-00184

Author(s):

Year of publication:

Title of article:

Journal name:

Volume:

Issue number:

Page range or article number:

DOI:

Use the information to a reference list entry according to the journal article reference examples.

Reference list entry (remember to apply hanging indent in your paper):

In-Text Citations

Use the author(s) and year from your reference list entry to create the in-text citations.

Parenthetical in-text citation:

Narrative in-text citation:

Check if advance online publication

(replaces volume/issue/pages):

Step 3: Analyzing a Research Article

Research articles are typically dense with information. The following questions provide an organized way

for you to break down the parts of the research article and understand its purpose, methods, findings,

and implications.

Introduction

1. What is the topic of the article?

2. What is the study hypothesis (or hypotheses)?

3. What type of research was conducted (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods empirical

study or meta-analysis) or what was the paper type (e.g., literature review, replication)?

Method

4. How many people (or nonhuman animals) participated in the study?

5. Who were the participants? Describe from where they were recruited (e.g., college student subject

pool, community) and all relevant personal characteristics (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity).

6. Where was the study conducted (e.g., online, lab, home, school, work, hospital, clinic)?

7. What tests or measures were collected (e.g., surveys, questionnaires)?

8. What analyses were conducted (e.g., correlation, t test, chi-square test, analysis of variance, thematic)?Results or Findings

9. What are the main results or findings from the study?

10. If there are tables and/or figures, what types of tables (e.g., demographic, correlation) and/or figures

(e.g., bar graph, participant flow) are they? What important information do they convey?

Discussion

11. What are the main conclusions of the research?

12. To whom do the results or findings apply? Can they be generalized to all people in all places, to

certain subsets of people, or something else?

13. What are the strengths and limitations of the study?

14. What are areas for further investigation on this topic?Step 4: Paraphrasing a Research Article

Now paraphrase the main sections of the article. Keep each paraphrase to one or two

sentences if possible. Use these paraphrases to write an article summary to use in your papers. Include

an in-text citation (see Step 2) in the first sentence of your summary. As long as you continue to discuss

the same study within the same paragraph without using other sources, it is not necessary to repeat the

citation.

Introduction paraphrase:

Method paraphrase:

Results or Findings paraphrase:

Discussion paraphrase:

Article summary (with in-text citation in first sentence):