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Citation Guide: How to cite PERIODICALS

A guide for navigating various citation styles in order to create citations for resources cited in research papers.

Newspapers

For newspapers, see Footnotes/ End notes section.

Scholarly Journal

Note:

Note number. Author’s First and Last Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Journal Volume number, issue number (Date of Publication): pages.

Sample Note:

3. Gerard Hise, “Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles,” Journal of Urban History 19, no. 6 (1993): 125.

Bibliography:

Author's Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Journal volume, issue (Date of Publication): pages.

Sample Citation:

Hise, Gerard. “Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles.” Journal of Urban History 19, no. 6 (1993): 95-125.

Scholarly Journal Online

Note:

Note number. Author’s First and Last Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Journal Volume number, issue number (Date of Publication): pages, URL or doi number.

Sample Note:

3. Winfried Denk, James H. Strickler, and Watt W. Webb, “Two-photon Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy,” Science 248, no. 4951 (1990): 75, https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.2321027.

Bibliography:

Author's Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Journal volume number, issue number (Date of Publication): pages. URL or database or doi number or App used.

Sample citations:

Denk, Winfried, James H. Strickler, and Watt W. Webb. “Two-photon Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy.” Science 248, no. 4951 (1990): 73-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.2321027.

Gold, Ann Grodzins. “Grains of Truth: Shifting Hierarchies of Food and Grace in Three Rajasthani Tales.” History of Religions 38, no. 2 (November 1998):150-71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/316672.

Walliss, John. “Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics? Nineteenth Century Crime Statistics for England and Wales as a Historical Source.” History Compass 10, no. 8 (August 2012): 574-83. Historical Abstracts with Full Text.

Magazine

Note:

Note number. Author’s First and Last Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Magazine, Date of Publication, page.

Sample Note:

3. Jill Lepore, “Dickens in Eden,” New Yorker, August 29, 2011, 52.

Bibliography:

Author's Last Name, First Name. “Title of article.” Name of Magazine, Date of Publication.

Sample Citation:

Lepore, Jill. “Dickens in Eden.” New Yorker, August 29, 2011.

Electronic Magazine

Note:

Note number. Author’s First and Last Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Magazine, Date of Publication, URL or doi number.

Sample Note:

3. Michael M. Grynbaum, “A Market Decline in Search of a Reason,” New York Times Magazine, September 4, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/business/worldbusiness/04iht-05stox.15907105.html.

Bibliography:

Author's Last Name, First Name.  “Title of article.” Name of Magazine, Date of Publication. URL or doi number.

Sample citation:

Grynbaum, Michael M. “A Market Decline in Search of a Reason.” New York Times Magazine, September 4, 2008. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/business/worldbusiness/04iht-05stox.15907105.html.