MLA Style

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MLA Style

• 5.7 Citing Articles in Periodicals

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Articles in a scholarly journal with continuous
pagination

• Hanks, Patrick. Do Word Meanings Exist?
  Computers and the Humanities 34 (2000) 205-15.
• White, Sabina, and Andrew Winzelberg. Laughter
  and Stress. Humor 5 (1992) 343- 55.

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Articles in scholarly journals that pages each
issue anew

• Albada, Kelley F. The Public and Private
  Dialogue about the American Family on
  Television. Journal of Communication 50.4
  (2000) 79-110.
• Barthelme, Frederick. Architecture. Kansas
  Quarterly 13.3-4 (1981) 77-80.

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Articles in a scholarly journal that only uses
issues

• In such journals treat issue numbers as volume
  numbers.
• McNeilly, Kevin. Home Economics. Canadian
  Literature 166 (2000) 5-16.

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Articles in a Newspaper

• For locally published newspapers, add the city in
  square brackets, not underlined, after the name,
  if not part of the papers name. Star-Ledger
  Newark.
• For nationally published newspaper, do not add
  the city of publication. Wall Street Journal

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• Give the complete date day, month, year.
• Abbreviate all months except May, June and July.
• Do not give volume and issue numbers.
• If listed on the masthead, give the edition

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• Daily Edition
  Chang, Kenneth. The Melting (Freezing) of
  Antarctica. New York Times 2 Apr. 2002, late
  ed. F1.
• Sunday Edition Hennenberger, Melinda. The
  Leonardo Cover-up. New York Times 21 Apr.
  2002, late ed., sec. 6 42.

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• Gopnik, Blake. Art and Design Bringing Fresh
  Ideas to the Table. Washington Post 21 Apr.
  2002 G1.
• Hirsch, Marianne. The Day Time Stopped.
  Chronicle of Higher Education 25 Jan. 2002
  B11- 14.

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Articles in Magazines

• For magazines published weekly or every two
  weeks, give complete date.
• For magazines published monthly or every other
  month, give month/s and year.
• Articles not printed on consecutive pages, write
  only the first page number and a plus sign.
• Do not give the volume and issue numbers.

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• Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. Exploding Myths. New
  Republic 6 June 1998 17-19.
• Fallows, James. The Early- Decision Racket.
  Atlantic Monthly Sept. 2001 37-52.
• Perlstein, Rick. Abridged Too Far? Lingua
  Franca Apr.-May 1997 23-24.