The ShushFree Library: Citing Periodicals

Citing Periodicals

Find as many of the components listed below as you can. If there are components you can't find (no series, volume or issue number) then skip it and move on to the next. Notice punctuation (or lack thereof) and font (italics): these are important! The Medium of Publication for print periodicals is "Print".

Components:

1. Author Last Name, First.
2. "Title of Article."
3. Name of Periodical
4. Series number or name.
5. Volume number.
6. Issue number
7. Date of publication - if only year is known put it in parentheses:
8. Page numbers.
9. Medium of publication (Print).

Depending on the source you used arrange the components to look like one of the following examples (don't forget to use hanging indentation and double spacing):
An Article in a Scholarly Journal

Piper, Andrew. "Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything." PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print.

An Article in a Newspaper

Alaton, Salem. "So, Did They Live Happily Ever After?" Globe and Mail [Toronto] 27 Dec. 1997:D1+. Print.

Goldberg, Grace. "The Inside Track: Alumni Life." Trojan Times 10 Oct. 2004: 17. Print.

Jeromack, Paul. "This Once, a David of the Art World Does Goliath a Favor." New York Times 13 July 2002, late ed.:B7+. Print.

McKay, Peter A. "Stocks Feel the Dollar's Weight." Wall Street Journal 4 Dec. 2006: C1+. Print.

Smith, Bob. "Schools Losing Ground." USA Today 5 May 2001: 5D. Print.

"Striking a Pose with Sally Miles." New York Times 15 Oct. 1997, late ed. sec.6: 35+. Print.

An Article in a Magazine

Henry, Mary Ann. "Announcing Bus Changes With Flair." Time 4 July 2001: 17-76. Print.

Ramsey, Pamela. "Where's My Smiley Face?" MacWorld Sept. 1997: 86-94. Print.

Skater, Andrew. "High School Rollerblading." Secondary Education 54(1990): 113-25. Print.

A Review

Bordewich, Fergus M. Rev. of Once They Moved like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars, by David Roberts, and Brave Are MyPeople: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten, by Frank Waters. Smithsonian Mar. 1994: 125-31. Print.

Mendelsohn, Daniel. "September 11 at the Movies." Rev. of United 93, dir. Paul Greengrass, and World Trade Center, dir. Oliver Stone. New YorkReview of Books 21 Sept. 2006: 43-46. Print.