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MLA
Guide: Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
Signed
Magazine Article
To cite a magazine article in a periodical
published every month or every two months, use the month and year only. Do not
bother with volume and issue numbers.
Works Cited
Wolkomir, Richard. "Charting the Terrain
of Touch."
Smithsonian June 2000:
38-48.
If the magazine or journal you've used is
published more often than once a month, use the complete date (abbreviating
all months except May, June, and July), starting with the date: 17 Dec. 1999.
If the page numbers on which an article appears are not sequential, use the
first page on which the article appears along with a + sign (with an
intervening space, as in 38+). Your parenthetical citation will indicate the
exact source (page number) of the citation.
Scholarly
Journal Article:
When citing an article in a scholarly journal,
use the volume and number only if the journal does not number its pages
beginning anew with each number. In other words, if volume one ends with page
322 and volume two begins with page 323, don't bother to cite the volume and
number when using material from that journal.
Omit any articles at the beginning of a
journal's name when listing on your Works Cited page. If the article does not
appear on sequentially printed pages, use the first page with a plus sign, as
in 29+. Your parenthetical citation will indicate the material's exact source.
Works Cited
Christie, John S. "Fathers and Virgins:
Garcia Marquez's Faulknerian Chronicle of a Death Foretold."
Latin American Literary Review 13.3 (1993): 21-29.
In-Text Citation
"The combination of these large
patterns of similarity is particularly useful in examining Chronicle of a
Death Foretold since both writers break down narrative authority through
innovative use of multiple perspectives" (Christie 22).
*** - For articles with more than one author,
handle the authors' names as you would the authors' names from multi-authored
books.
Unsigned
Magazine Article
Works Cited
"What's a Hoatzin?" Newsweek
27 Sept. 1993: 72-73.
In-Text Citation
"Perhaps the most distinctive trait of
the hoatzin is its odor. It smells like manure-cow manure, to be precise"
("What's a Hoatzin?" 72).
Signed
Newspaper Article
Works Cited
Huffstutter, P.J. "Music Rights Get
Tangled on the Web." The Hartford Courant 31 May 2000, eastern
ed.: A1+.
Notice that the "+" indicates that
the article is carried over onto subsequent pages (but not necessarily the
next page). The exact page of a citation will be indicated parenthetically.
In-Text Citation
"Federal law says that when an Internet service provider gets a
complaint about a person allegedly breaking copyright law, the ISP must remove
that user from its service" (Huffstutter A5).
Unsigned
Newspaper Article
Nowadays newspapers usually assign a by-line
for its articles. Sometimes, though, especially when combined wire services
are used in the compilation of a story, you will not find an author's name. In
that case, use the title of the article as the alphabetizing element.
Works Cited
"U.S. Troops Capture Chief Aide to
Warlord."
The Hartford Courant 22 Sept.
1993: A5.
In-Text Citation
"Somalis consider the middle-aged Atto to be Aidid's No. 2
man" ("U.S. Troops" A5).
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