Periodicals (Magazines and Newspapers)

An Article from a Scholarly Journal or Magazine

Citation entries for newspapers and periodicals generally list five or six main sections of information about your source:

1. Author's name, Last name, comma, First name period.
2. "Title of the article" in quotations period.
3. Title of magazine or journal (italicized , ignoring leading articles such as a , the or an period.
4. (for scholarly journal only) volume and issue number, if available.
5. Date of publication -for a scholarly journal, the year of publication (in parentheses)
   - for other periodicals, the day, month, and year, as available) colon:
6. Inclusive page numbers
7. Medium of publication consulted period.

Magazine

Prince, Dinah. “Marriage in the ’80s.” Time. 1 June 1987: 30-38. Print.

Note that this entry gives the full date. Do not include volume and issue numbers

Scholarly Journal

Sarkar, Prabirjit. “Trade Openness and Growth: Is There Any Link?” Journal of Economic Issues 3 (2008): 763. Print.

Note that this entry gives the year in parentheses.

Newspaper

Citation entries for newspapers generally list six main sections of information about your source:

1. Author's name, Last name, comma, First name.
2. "Full Title of the Article" in quotations.
3. Title of newspaper italicized , ignoring leading articles such as a , the or an.
4. Date (format is day, month year as given) ,comma
5. Edition if any ( morning edition, Valley edition etc...) period and comma
6. Section number and page number.
7. Medium of publication consulted ..

Epstein, Edward. “Congress Talks of ID Theft Crackdown.” San Francisco Chronicle.
     14 April 2005: A1.