MLA 7 Visual Guide - Journals
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This document provides instructions for citing journal articles in MLA style in 3 different scenarios: 1) Articles found through an online database require citing the database name. 2) Print articles list the journal title, volume/issue, page numbers, and year. 3) Online articles not in a database are similar but also list the date accessed. Journal articles are publications by professional organizations and can be scholarly or popular in nature.
MLA 7 Visual Guide - Journals
- 1. Automatically Cite Your Sources For Free at www.easybib.com Citing a Journal (MLA) Citing a journal article found through a database Journal: A periodical published by a special group or professional organization. Often focused around a particular area of study or interest. Can be scholarly in nature (featuring peer-reviewed articles), or popular (such as trade publications). *Online databases provide access to thousands of journal articles. It is important to identify the database name when citing a journal article found through a database. Structure: Last, First M. "Article Title." Journal Title. Series Volume.Issue (Year published): Page-Page. Database Name. Web. Date Month Year Accessed. Database name Article title Author Journal Title Year of Publicati on Page s Citation: Manning, Paul. "YouTube, 'Drug Videos' and Drugs Education." Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy 20.2 (2013): 120-30. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Apr. 2013. Date accessed: This is the day that the article was found and read. Volume and issue numbers**If you cannot identify a series, leave it out of the citation.
- 2. Automatically Cite Your Sources For Free at www.easybib.com Citing a Journal (MLA) Structure: Last, First M., and First M. Last. “Article title.” Journal Title. Series Volume.Issue (Year Published): Page-Page. Print. Citation: Anand, Raktima, Akhilesh Gupta, Anshu Gupta, Sonia Wadhawan, and Poonam Bhadoria. “Management of Swine-flu Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: Our Experience.” Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology 28.1 (2012): 51-55. Print. Journal: A periodical published by a special group or professional organization. Often focused around a particular area of study or interest. Can be scholarly in nature (featuring peer-reviewed articles), or popular (such as trade publications). Citing a journal article in print Author( s) Article title Journal title Volume and issue numbers Year of publication Much of the publication data can be found at the article’s footer, near the page numbers:*If you cannot identify a series, leave it out of the citation.
- 3. Automatically Cite Your Sources For Free at www.easybib.com Citing a Journal (MLA) Date Accessed: This is the day that the article was found and read. Structure: Last, First M and First M. Last. “Article title.” Journal Title. Series Volume.Issue (Year Published): Page- Page. Website Publication Year. Web. Date Month Year Accessed. Citation: Marsh, Joanne, and Gill Evans. “Generating Research Income: Library Involvement in Academic Research.” Library and Information Research 36.113 (2012): 48-61. 2013. Web. 2 Apr. 2013. Citing an online journal article (not found using a database) Journal title Article title Autho rs Volume, Issue, Publication Year Journal: A periodical published by a special group or professional organization. Often focused around a particular area of study or interest. Can be scholarly in nature (featuring peer-reviewed articles), or popular (such as trade publications). *Some journal articles are accessible online without the use of a database. Citing an online journal article is similar to citing a print journal article, except that you include the date you found it. *If you cannot identify a series, leave it out of the citation.