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MLA Citation: Articles

Articles

  • Authors:  if a newspaper article shows an agency like Reuters or Associated Press, but no personal author, treat the article as anonymous and begin the entry with the article’s title.
  • Titles: the title of the article is in regular script and enclosed in "quotation marks"; the title of the journal, magazine or newspaper is in italics; all words are capitalized except a, an, the, of, on, etc., unless they are the first word
  • Volume is written as vol. xx; issue is written as no. xx; a single page number is written as p. x and page ranges as pp. xx-xx
  • Pages: if an article is not printed on consecutive pages (e.g. it starts on page F1, but continues on page F12), write only the first page number, followed by a plus sign (e.g. F1+); if an article consists of only one page, put it in the reference list entry, but omit the page number in the in-text citation (as in the Penner example)
  • Date: give the date as published (for example, month/season/day); months longer than four letters are abbreviated
  • For articles found in a KPU database, include the publication platform name and the DOI number (xxxxx) if available; use the following format: https://doi.org/xxxxx; if there is no DOI, look for a permalink; if there is neither a DOI nor a permalink, include the URL or the platform's generic search/login page, for example: search.ebscohost.com (omit http:// or https:// for URLs)
  • For articles from the open Web, the DOI, permalink or URL are sufficient as a location and no page numbers are necessary; you can omit http(s)://
  • Articles with Article numbers where each article starts with page 1, omit both the article number and page number. Example here

ARTICLES IN PRINT

Author last name, full given name(s). "Title of Article: Subtitle." Title of Periodical, vol. #, no. #, date, pp. #-#.

Frideres, James. "Aboriginal Identity in the Canadian Context." The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, pp. 313-342.

Jones, Mel. "The Second Racial Wealth Gap." Washington Monthly, vol. 47, nos. 11-12, Nov.-Dec. 2015, pp. 11-14.

Penner, Derrick. "First Nation Solar Farm a Model for B.C.'s Future." The Vancouver Sun, 3 Dec. 2019, p. A1.

 

In text citation: ... (Frideres 315) ... (Jones 12) ... (Penner)

 

ARTICLES FROM KPU DATABASES

Author last name, full given name(s). "Title of Article: Subtitle." Title of Periodical, vol. #, no. #, date, pp. #-#. Name of Database, https://doi.org/xxx OR Permalink OR URL/main search page.

Frideres, James, and Marie Dalhouse. "Intergenerational Congruency: The Role of the Family in the Political Attitudes of Youth." Journal of Family Issues, vol. 17, no. 2, 1996, pp. 227-248. Sage, https://doi.org/10.1177/019251396017002005.

Frideres, James. "Aboriginal Identity in the Canadian Context." The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, pp. 313-342. Proquest, www.proquest.com/docview/218083937/fulltextPDF/F7B57420EB0F43CFPQ/1?accountid=35875.

In text citation: ... (Frideres and Dalhouse 230) ... (Frideres 315)

 

ARTICLES FROM KPU DATABASES - IN PRESS/ADVANCE ONLINE PUBLICATION

Author last name, full given name(s). "Title of Article: Subtitle." Title of Periodical, date. Name of Database, https://doi.org/xxx OR Permalink OR URL/main search page. Article in press (this is an optional element). 

Kormelink, Tim Groot, and Irene Costera Meijer. "Material and Sensory Dimensions of Everyday News Use." Media, Culture, and Society, 5 Feb. 2019, Sage Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718810910. 

 

ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON THE WEB

Author last name, full given name(s). "Title of Article: Subtitle." Title of Periodical, vol. #, no. #, date, URL.

Frideres, James. "Aboriginal Identity in the Canadian Context." The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, www3.brandonu.ca/cjns/28.2/05Frideres.pdf.

Jones, Mel. "The Second Racial Wealth Gap." Washington Monthly, Nov.-Dec. 2015, washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/the-second-racial-wealth-gap/.

Penner, Derrick. "Fortune Beams on Tsilhqot'in Solar-power Project on Remote Chilcotin Plateau." The Vancouver Sun, 3 Dec. 2019, vancouversun.com/business/energy/fortune-beams-on-tsilhqotin-solar-power-project-on-remote-chilcotin-plateau.

In text citation: ... (Frideres 315) ... (Jones) ... (Penner)

  • To the basic periodical citation add [Review of the book Title, by A. A. Author or Editor] for a book review, [Review of the film Film title, by A. A. Director, Dir.], etc. 

REVIEW ARTICLES FROM KPU DATABASES

Author last name, full given name(s). "Title of Review: Subtitle." Review of Title of Book: Subtitle, by Book Author's Given Names Last Name, Title of Periodical, vol. #, no. #, date, pp. #-#. Name of Database, https://doi.org/xxx OR main search page..

Cooper, Louis F. "A World without Great-Power War." Review of Dangerous Time? The International Politics of Great Power Peace, by Christopher J. Fettweis, International Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 4, 16 Dec. 2011, pp. 684-686. Oxford Academic, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2011.01068.x.

REVIEW ARTICLES FROM THE OPEN WEB

Author last name, full given name(s). "Title of Review: Subtitle." Review of Title of Book: Subtitle, by Book Author's Given Names Last Name, Title of Newspaper, Date, URL.

Grynbaum, Micheal M. "If Nietzsche were in Highschool." Review of Nietzsche and the Burbs, by Lars Iyer, The New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019, nyti.ms/2OJV2s0.

 

In text citation: ... (Cooper, 2011) ... (Grynbaum, 2019) 

Note: if quoting also include a page number or other locator