Author's
Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. "Title of Article."
Name of
Magazine
Day Month
Year: Pages.
Author
- The first part of a magazine article citation is the author(s), which
is the same for all formats of materials. See Authors
page for more information.
Article Title
- Article titles are the same in all formats
- The article title is capitalized according to conventions
- The article title is placed within quotation marks
- There is a period, within the quotation marks, at the end of the article
title
- An article subtitle is handled the same as a book title except it's
inside quotation marks
Author.
"Article Title."
Example:
Campbell-Ellis, Niko. "Building a Forest-Friendly Home."
Magazine Title
- Magazine title is underlined
- Do not use volume and issue number for magazines
Author. "Title."
Magazine Title
Example:
Jackson, David S. "Back to the Garden: A Suburban Dream."
Time
Publication Date
- Do not use volume and issue number for magazines
- If full date of publication is given, use Day Month Year format for
date
- If month and year are given, list those. (June 2002) (Nov./Dec. 2001)
- All months are abbreviated to three letters followed by a period except
May, June, and July which are not abbreviated
- Date is followed by a colon ( : )
Author. "Title."
Magazine Title Day Month Year:
Examples:
Campbell-Ellis, Niko. "Building a Forest-Friendly Home."
Earth Garden
June/Aug. 2002:
Jackson, David S. "Back to the Garden: A Suburban Dream."
Time 22 Feb.
1999:
Page Numbers
- Beginning and ending page numbers are listed
- If pages are nonconsecutive, note with + symbol (24-28+)
- Do not use abbreviations for pages such as p., pp. pg., pgs.
- Page numbers are followed by a period.
Author. "Title."
Magazine Title Day Month Year: Pages.
Examples:
Campbell-Ellis, Niko. "Building a Forest-Friendly Home." Earth
Garden
June/Aug. 2002: 30-2.
Jackson, David S. "Back to the Garden: A Suburban Dream."
Time 22 Feb.
1999: 78-9.
Magazine Article from Database
- A periodical is considered a print periodical if you actually have
the publication or a photocopy from the publication
- If you accessed the article through a database (i.e. online) you need
to add the database information to the basic periodical citation format
we learned above
- If you received an article through UTAD, the Utah Article Delivery
Service, it was photocopied from the periodical and is considered a
print periodical article
- The basic citation for a magazine article from
a database is the same as a print article
Author's
Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. "Title of Article."
Name of
Magazine
Day Month
Year: Pages. Name of Database. Dixie College
Library,
St. George, UT.
Day Month Year you accessed the article.
<Main
URL for database>.
Database Name
- After the basic citation, information about the database is added
- The first element added is the name of the database
- The database name is followed by a period
One important note: EBSCOhost is NOT a database.
The library subscribes to many EBSCOhost databases including: EBSCOhost
Academic Search Elite, EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost Business
Source Premier, etc.
It is important to include the full name of an EBSCO database because
the purpose in doing a Works Cited list is so others can locate the
same material.
Magazine
Article Citation. Name of Database.
Example:
Matesi, Ann. "Living Well." Professional Builder Dec.
2001: 40-50. ProQuest.
Access Information
- The next element is the access information
- For all subscription databases, the access information is the Dixie
College Library or Browning Library
- Subscription databases are those you must be on campus or use the
off-campus access to use
- Library is always abbreviated "Lib." in MLA citations
- The library information is followed by a comma
Periodical
Article Citation. Name of Database. Dixie State College Lib.,
Example:
Matesi, Ann. "Living Well." Professional Builder Dec.
2001: 40-50. ProQuest.
Dixie College Lib.,
Place of Acess
- For all subscription databases, the place of access is St. George,
UT
- States are abbreviated with the same two letter abbreivations used
for book place of publication
- The place of access ends with a period
Periodical
Article Citation. Name of Database. Dixie State College Lib., St.
George, UT.
Example:
Matesi, Ann. "Living Well." Professional Builder Dec.
2001: 40-50. ProQuest.
Dixie College Lib., St. George, UT.
Date of Access
- This is the date you accessed the article in the online database
- The date is in the usual Day Month Year format
- The date ends with a period
Periodical
Article Citation. Name of Database. Dixie State College Lib., St.
George,
UT. Day
Month Year.
Example:
Matesi, Ann. "Living Well." Professional Builder Dec.
2001: 40-50. ProQuest.
Dixie College Lib., St. George, UT. 15 June 2002. <http://proquest.
umi.com>.
Brief URL
- A brief URL is the final element
- A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, the Internet
address of a Web site
- The URL is shortened to access only the database, not the article
- The brief URL is enclosed in angled brackets ( < > )
- The citation ends with a period
- Shortened URLS for Databases
: A list of shortened Internet addresses
for popular library databases
Periodical
Article Citation. Name of Database. Dixie State College Lib., St. George,
UT.
Day Month
Year. <Brief URL>.
Example:
Matesi, Ann. "Living Well." Professional Builder Dec.
2001: 40-50. ProQuest.
Dixie College Lib., St. George, UT. 15 June 2002. <http://proquest.
umi.com>.
All EBSCOhost database articles (Academic Search
Elite, EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost Business Source Premier,
etc.) will have the same shortened URL: <http://www.epnet.com/>.
CQ Researcher Example:
Tanner, Jane. "Affordable Housing." CQ Researcher
9 Feb. 2001. CQ
Researcher. Dixie College Lib., St. George, UT. 15 June 2002.
<http://library.cqpress.com/>.
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