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Information You Need

To write a citation for a magazine article you will need the following pieces of information:

  • Author(s)
  • Date (Year, Month)
  • Article title
  • Magazine title (this is italicized)
  • Volume number (this is italicized)
  • Issue number 
  • Page numbers
  • DOI (an assigned alphanumeric sequence given to a journal article to help identify it).
    Not every work has a DOI. Please connect with your instructor about using a url link to content found on a library database and what is acceptable for the assignment.

  • URL (if from an online magazine and not from a database, see note above for database url)

Online

Online from a magazine website:

Author's last name, First initial. (Year of publication, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume(issue), page number. URL
Johnson, D. (2017, January 4). Ideology as a vocation. New Criterion, 3(49), 40-44. https://www.newcriterion.com

Online from a database with DOI:

Author's last name, First initial. (Year of publication, Month Day). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume(issue), page number. DOI
Schaefer, N. K., & Shapiro, B. (2019, September 6). New middle chapter in the story of human evolution. Science, 365(6457), 981–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550

Online from a database without DOI:

See example below: Print
Print and online articles from a database without a DOI are cited the same. However, connect with your instructor if they would like the permalink (URL) to the database included.

Narrative In-text

Author (Date)
Johnson (2008)

Parenthetical

(Author, Date)
(Johnson, 2008)

Print or From a database Without a DOI

Author's last name, First initial. (Year of publication, Month). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume(issue), page number.
Farran, S. (2007, April 2). What can 70,000 students teach you? Maclean's, 120(5), 28-37.

Narrative In-text

Author (Date)
Farran (2008)

Parenthetical

(Author, Date)
(Farran, 2008)