Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
Signed Magazine Article:
To cite a magazine article in a periodical published every month or every two months, use the month and year only (without a comma between them). Do not bother with volume and issue numbers. If the article appears on more than one consecutive pages, give the page range.
For the Works Cited Page
Wolkomir, Richard. "Charting the Terrain of Touch." Smithsonian June 2000: 38-48.
If the magazine or journal you've used is published more often than once a month, use the complete date (abbreviating all months except May, June, and July), starting with the date: 17 Dec. 1999. (Use no commas, but use the period after abbreviated month names.) If the page numbers on which an article appears are not sequential, use the first page on which the article appears along with a + sign (with an intervening space afterwards, as in 38+ ). Your parenthetical citation will indicate for your reader the exact page number of the citation.
Scholarly Journal Article:
When citing an article in a scholarly journal, use the volume and number only if the journal does not number its pages beginning anew with each number. In other words, if volume one ends with page 322 and volume two begins with page 323, do not bother to cite the volume and number when using material from that journal. Omit any articles at the beginning of a journal's name when listing on your Works Cited page. If the article does not appear on sequentially printed pages, use the first page with a plus sign, as in 29+. Your parenthetical citation will indicate the material's exact source.
For the Works Cited Page
Christie, John S. "Fathers and Virgins: Garcia Marquez's Faulknerian Chronicle of a Death Foretold." Latin American Literary Review 13.3 (1993): 21-29.
In-text Citation
"The combination of these large patterns of similarity is particularly useful in examining Chronicle of a Death Foretold since both writers break down narrative authority through innovative use of multiple perspectives" (Christie 22).
For articles with more than one author, handle the authors' names as you would the authors' names from multi-authored books.
Unsigned magazine article:
Begin with the title of the article. When alphabetizing, ignore "a," "an," and "the." If the article appears on only one page, give that page number (without p. or pp. abbreviations); if the article appears on more than one consecutive pages, list the inclusive page numbers (your parenthetical citation will indicate the exact page of your citation).
For the Works Cited Page
"What's a Hoatzin?" Newsweek 27 Sept. 1993: 72-73.
In-text Citation
"Perhaps the most distinctive trait of the hoatzin is its odor. It smells like manure—cow manure, to be precise" ("What's a Hoatzin?" 72).
Signed newspaper article:
Omit an initial "The" in newspaper titles. Notice there are no commas in the date construction.For the Works Cited Page
Huffstutter, P.J. "Music Rights Get Tangled on the Web." Hartford Courant 31 May 2000, eastern ed.: A1+.
Notice that the "+" indicates that the article is carried over onto subsequent pages (but not necessarily the next page). The exact page of a citation will be indicated parenthetically.
In-text Citation
"Federal law says that when an Internet service provider gets a complaint about a person allegedly breaking copyright law, the ISP must remove that user from its service" (Huffstutter A5).
Unsigned newspaper article:
Nowadays newspapers usually assign a byline for their articles. Sometimes, though, especially when combined wire services are used in the compilation of a story, you will not find an author's name. In that case, use the title of the article as the alphabetizing element.
For the Works Cited Page
"U.S. Troops Capture Chief Aide to Warlord." Hartford Courant 22 Sept. 1993: A5.
In-text Citation
"Somalis consider the middle-aged Atto to be Aidid's No. 2 man" ("U.S. Troops" A5).