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Articles (Print, Online, Database)

Articles appear in periodicals—works that are issued at regular intervals such as scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines. Most periodicals today are available both in print and in electronic form (online or through an electronic database); some are available only in electronic format. If you are using the online version of an article, use the models provided here. If no model matches your source exactly, choose the closest match, and add any other information your reader will need to track down the source.

For help distinguishing between scholarly journals and magazines, see Chapter 22.

From a scholarly journal Scholarly journals are typically identified using their volume and issue numbers, separated by a period. If a journal does not use volume numbers, provide the issue number only. Online journals may not include page numbers; if paragraph or other section numbers are provided, use them instead. If an article in a printed journal is not on a continuous sequence of pages, give the first page number followed by a plus sign. (See entry for a print version of a newspaper for an example.)

Figure 24.2 shows where to find the source information you will need to create a works-cited entry for three of the journal articles cited here.

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FIGURE 24.2 Documentation Map for a Journal Article For a print journal, look for the title of the journal on the front cover or in the table of contents. The author and article title will also be listed there; they will, of course, appear on the first page of the article (shown here) as well. The information you will need to cite an article you access through a database will appear in the list of results, the detailed record of the article, and the PDF (or HTML) version of the article itself. For an article published in an electronic journal, look for the information you need to create the works-cited entry on the journal’s home page, table of contents, or the page on which the article appears. Sometimes the URL that appears in your browser's address bar is not the best way to cite your source. Some databases provide shorter, more stable permalinks for journal articles, often as part of a sharing feature or detailed record. If your source has a DOI, use this instead of a URL. DOIs may be listed near the beginning of an article, on the top or bottom of all pages in a PDF, or in the detailed record for the source in a database. You can look up the DOI for any source that has one at www.crossref.org/.

From a newspaper Newspapers are identified by date, not volume and issue numbers, with the names of months longer than four letters abbreviated. If articles are not on a continuous series of pages, give only the first page number followed by a plus sign.

From a magazine Magazines (like newspapers) are identified by date, with the names of months longer than four letters abbreviated. For magazines published weekly or biweekly, include the day, month, and year; for magazines published monthly or bimonthly, include the month and year. If the article is unsigned, alphabetize entries by the first important word in the title (ignoring A, An, and The).

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Editorial or letter to the editor

Review If the review does not include an author’s name, start the entry with the title of the review; then add Review of and the title of the work being reviewed. If the review is untitled, include the Review of description immediately after the author’s name. For a review in an online newspaper or magazine, add the URL, ideally a permalink. For a review accessed through a database, add the database title (in italics) and the DOI or URL.