Periodicals
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Periodicals include printed journals, electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers. Citations for these sources should include enough information for the reader to find the resource in a library or a database. Thus, dates are essential (month, day, and year for magazines and newspapers or month and issue number for journals). In Notes, the major elements are separated by commas; in the Bibliography, these elements are separated by periods.
Journals
Notes and Bibliographic entries for a journal include the following: Author’s name, article title, journal title and issue information. Issue information refers to volume, issue number or month, year, and page numbers. For online works, retrieval information and the date of access are also included.
N:
1. Susan Peck MacDonald, “The Erasure of Language,” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 619.
B:
MacDonald, Susan Peck. “The Erasure of Language.” College Composition and Communication 58, no 4 (2007): 585 - 625.
Author’s Name:
Notes include the author’s name as listed in the article. Bibliographic entries, however, invert the author’s name and include the first and last pages of the article.
Article Title:
Both Notes and Bibliographies use quotation marks to set off the titles of articles within the journal.
Journal Title:
Journal titles may omit an initial The but should otherwise be given in full, capitalized, and italicized.
Issue Information:
The volume number follows the journal title with no punctuation and is not italicized. The issue number (if it is given) is separated from the volume number with a comma and is preceded by “no.” The year appears in parenthesis after the volume number (or issue number if given). The year may be preceded by a specific date, month, or season if given. Page information follows the year. For Notes, page number(s) refer only to the cited material; the Bibliography includes the first and last pages of the article.
Electronic Journals
Citing electronic journals generally follows the same format that explained in the Journals section. Additionally, entries include the URL and the date accessed, especially if the material is time sensitive. The access date is included in parenthesis after the URL and is preceded by “accessed.”
N:
1. Henry E. Bent, “Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree,” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 141, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286 (accessed December 5, 2008).
B:
Bent, Henry E. Bent. "Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree.” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 0-145. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286 (accessed December 5, 2008).
Magazines
Notes and Bibliographic entries for magazines include the following information: author’s name, article title, magazine title, date.
N:
1. Emily Macel, “Beijing’s Modern Movement,” Dance Magazine, February 2009, 35.
B:
Macel, Emily. “Beijing’s Modern Movement.” Dance Magazine, February 2009.
Dates:
Even if weekly or monthly magazines are numbered by volume or issue, they are cited by date only.
Departments:
Regular department titles are capitalized but not put in quotation marks.
Page Numbers:
Citations for magazine articles may include a specific page number. Inclusive page numbers for the entire article are often omitted because the pages of the article are often separated by many pages of unrelated material. If page numbers are included, they should follow the date and be preceded by a comma.
Online Magazines
Notes and Bibliographic entries for online magazines should follow the relevant examples for printed magazines. Additionally, online magazine entries should also contain the URL.
N:
1. Barron YoungSmith, Green Room, Slate, February 4, 2009, http://www.slate.com/id/2202431/.
B:
YoungSmith, Barron. Green Room. Slate, February 4, 2009, http://www.slate.com/id/2202431/.
Note: In the examples above, Green Room is not placed in quotation marks because it is the department title rather than the article title.
Access Date:
If an access date is necessary, the access date should be included in parenthesis at the end of the citation. Access dates are used for time sensitive details and may be required by certain publishers or disciplines.
Newspapers
Notes and bibliographic entries for newspapers should include the following: name of the author (if listed), headline or column heading, newspaper name, month (often abbreviated), day and year. Since issues may include several editions, page numbers are best omitted. If an online edition of a newspaper is consulted, the URL should be added at the end of the citation.
N:
1. Nisha Deo, “Visiting Professor Lectures on Photographer,” Exponent (West Lafayette, IN), Feb. 13, 2009.
B:
Deo, Nisha. “Visiting Professor Lectures on Photographer.” Exponent, (West Lafayette, IN) Feb. 13, 2009.
Names of Newspapers:
If the name of a newspaper begins with The, this word is omitted. For American newspapers that are not well-known, a city name should be added along with the newspaper title (see above). Additionally, a state abbreviation may be added in parenthesis after the city name.
News Services:
News services such as the Associated Press or the United Press International are capitalized but not italicized.
Headlines:
Headlines may be capitalized using a “headline style” in which all major words are capitalized or “sentence style” in which only the first word and other proper nouns are capitalized.
Regular Columns:
If a regular column is cited, the column name may be included with the article title or, to save space, the column name may replace the article title.
Citing in Text:
Newspapers are more often cited in text or in notes than in bibliographies.
