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MLA 8th Edition: Citing Periodicals (print)

Basic Rules

If you use an article from a journal, magazine, or newspaper you must cite the specific journal/magazine as well as the article you use.

The basic citation format for a periodical is as follows:

Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Volume*, Issue*, Year, pages*.

Example:

Freud, Sigmund. "What Does Psychology Actually Do: Why Do We Need It." Psychology Quarterly,  vol. IV, no. 3, 2019, pp. 21-23.


In addition to the Works Cited page, MLA format requires in-text (parenthetical citation).  This is used in any sentence where information is used from a source that is either a direct quote or paraphrase. The information required for a book is author's last name (or a shortened version of the title if there is no author) and the page number.

Examples:

(Freud 21).

Freud stated that "Insert quoted text here" (21).

(Yesterday's News L7).

Yesterday's News stated that "Insert quoted text here" (L7).

 

*Please note that you should use the number format that is used by the source.

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