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MLA Format (9th Edition): Periodicals

Magazines

*Remember that all citations need to be formated with a hanging indent where the first line is to the margin and the following lines are indented.
 
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Here is the citation information for a magazine article:

Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, pages.

 

Examples:

Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly, 12 May 1994pp. 127-53. 

 

Articles in a Database

Cite articles from UA-PTC databases (e.g. ProQuest, JSTOR, etc.) the same as a print article. After the page numbers, list the title of the database in italics and then the DOI or PermalinkURL. If a DOI is not provided, use the PermalinkURL instead. 

LastnameFirstname. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Day Month Year, pp. pages. Database name, URL or doi

 

Example:

Junod, Tom. "The State of the American Dog." Esquire, August 2014, p. 64. Proquestsearch.proquest.com/docview/1558967057/fulltext/3DC239BE818F482APQ/2?accountid=39906

 

 (This information was obtained from the OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab. If you need more information about citing a magazine article, please visit their website.) 

Newspapers

Cite a newspaper article the same way you would a magazine article. However, there are different types of page numbers in a newspaper.

LastnameFirstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, p. pages. 

 

Example:

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post, 24 May 2007, p. LZ01.

Soergel, Matt. "WWII Medic Downplays Heroism, Recalls Combat: Veteran Newey Says 'I'm just Thankful'.." Pensacola News Journal, 5 June 2022, ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/wwii-medic-downplays-heroism-recalls-combat/docview/2673053726/se-2.

 

Scholarly Journals

*Remember that all citations need to be formated with a hanging indent where the first line is to the margin and the following lines are indented.

 

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Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.

Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. number, no. issue number, Year, pp. pages. 

 

Example:

Carpenter, Lucas. "It Don't Mean Nothin': Vietnam War Fiction and Postmodernism." College Literature, vol. 30, no. 2, 2003, pp. 30-50. 

 

Articles in a Database

Cite articles from UA-PTC databases (e.g. ProQuest, JSTOR, etc.) the same as a print article. After the page numbers, list the title of the database in italics and then the DOI or PermalinkURL. If a DOI is not provided, use the PermalinkURL instead.

LastnameFirstname. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. numberno. issue number, year, pp. pages. Database name, URL or doi.

 

Example:

Singer, Glen. "Genes." Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature,  vol. 23, no. 1, 2005, pp. 95-96. Literature Resource Center, 
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A157655465/LitRC?u=lftla_pultch&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=d6d4ad38 
 
Stewart, Ian J. "Forever Wounds of the Forever War."Heart, vol. 108, no. 5, 2022, pp. 330-331. Proquesthttps://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-320460. 

 

This information was obtained from the Purdue Online Writing Lab website.

 

 

Citing Articles from Library Databases-MLA 9th Edition

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