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Citing Sources, With Link to Chicago, DO NOT USE: Citing magazines, newspapers, or journal articles (print or online)

Lisa's Citing Sources with expanded Chicago

General Tips

General rules

  • No author listed on your source?  Just skip it and start with the title of the article
  •  Pay attention to italicized and Capitalized text.

o Books Titles (as well as journal, magazine, newspaper, encyclopedia, and database titles) should be italicized and capitalized.
o Article titles should be in “quotation marks”.

  •  For correct information, such as the book title, cities, and publisher, consult the title page of the book (not the book’s cover). The copyright date is found on the next page, next to the © symbol, for example, © 2009

Medium of Publication
For MLA citations, you will notice a place for the “Format” of your source. The “Format” is the medium of publication. For more on formats, see MLA 5.7. Here are the most common formats you might use:

  • Print (any printed book, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.)
  • Web (websites, scholarly articles from online databases, online newspaper and magazine articles.)
  • Television
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Photograph

Missing Elements

If any of your sources are missing elements, like the date or publisher, use the following abbreviations, if applicable:

No date = n. d.
No place of publication = n. p.
No publisher = n. p.
No pagination = n. pag.

Examples

General Format for Articles

PRINT ARTICLES:

Author(s). “Title of the Article.” Title of the Journal. Volume#.issue# (Year published):

Page range. Print.

ELECTRONIC ARTICLES (found in library databases):

Author(s). “Title of the Article.” Title of the Journal. volume #.issue# (Yearpublished):

Page range. Name of the Database. Web. Date you accessed it.


Examples

Items in green indicate variations in the citation based on the format.

Print Journal Article

Griffin, James. "What Do Happiness Studies Study?" Journal of Happiness Studies 8.1 (2007): 139-148.

Print.

Electronic Journal Article (from a library database)

Griffin, James. "What Do Happiness Studies Study?" Journal of Happiness Studies 8.1 (2007): 139-148.

Academic Search Premier. Web. 1 Apr. 2009.

  • Use the PDF version of the article (if available) to get the correct page range.

Print Magazine Article

Beatty, J. Kelly. "Double Trouble among Near-Earth Asteroids." Sky and Telescope July 2002: 23. Print.

  • Magazines generally have no volume or issue, so just include the Day, Month, and Year of publication, without parentheses. For magazines published monthly or quarterly, you only need to include the Month and Year.

Electronic Magazine Article (from a library database)

Beatty, J. Kelly. "Double Trouble among Near-Earth Asteroids." Sky and Telescope July 2002: 23.

MasterFILE Premier. Web. 1 Apr. 2009.

  • Magazines generally have no volume or issue, so just include the Day, Month, and Year of publication, without parentheses. For magazines published monthly or quarterly, you only need to include the Month and Year.

Print Newspaper Article

Battersby, John. “Nelson Mandela’s Moral Legacy.” Christian Science Monitor 10 May 1999: N.pag.

Print. 

Electronic Newspaper Article (from a library database)

Battersby, John. “Nelson Mandela’s Moral Legacy.” Christian Science Monitor 10 May 1999: N.pag.

ProQuest Newspapers. Web. 1 Apr. 2009.

  • For local newspapers, include the city and state in [brackets] after the title of the newspaper.