Citation Guide: How to cite JOURNALS

ASA Journal Article Citation

• Examples are not double-spaced, but your References list should be double-spaced
• Examples do not show indented lines after the first line, but yours should be indented

Author's Last Name, First Name. Middle Initial or name if used. Year of Publication. "Title of Article." Name of Journal volume(issue): pages. 

Example: (Print or Online version of Print)

Hise, George. 1993. "Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles." Journal of Urban History 19(6): 95-125.

Krivo, Lauren J., and Ruth D. Peterson. 2000. "The Structural Context of Homicide: Accounting for Racial Differences in Process." American Sociological Review 65(4): 547-59.

ASA Journal Article Citation

• Examples are not double-spaced, but your References list should be double-spaced
• Examples do not show indented lines after the first line, but yours should be indented

Author's Last Name, First Name. Middle Name or initial if used. Year of Publication. "Title of Article." Name of Journal volume(issue): pages. doi: number.

Examples:
Denk, William, John Henry Strickler, and Walter W. Webb. 1990. "Two-photon Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy. Science 248(4951): 73-76. doi: 10.1126/science.2321027.

Persell, Caroline Hodges, Kathryn M. Pfeiffer, and Ali Sye. 2008. "How Sociological Leaders Teach: Some Key Principles." Teaching Sociology 36(2): 108-24. doi: 10.1177/0092055X0803600202.

ASA Journal Article Citation

• Examples are not double-spaced, but your References list should be double-spaced
• Examples do not show indented lines after the first line, but yours should be indented

Author's Last Name, First Name. Middle Name or initial if used. Year of Publication. "Title of Article." Name of Journal volume(issue). Accessed date if needed. Complete URL.

Examples:

Banham, Gerarld. 2001. "Transcendental Philosophy and Artificial Life." Cultural Machine, 3. Accessed January 26, 2016. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/286271.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 2013. "Five Linked Crises in the Contemporary World-System." Journal of World-Systems Research 19(2).  http://www.jwsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Chase_Dunn_Symposium_Vol19_no2.pdf.