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in this video we'll cover how to cite articles and journals newspapers and
magazines. Collectively these are called periodicals or serials so you might hear
use use one of those words.
But we're calling the tutorial citing articles and journals
because it's a more commonly used phrase.
You'll usually find these articles and database provided through the Albertsons
Library website
though you might find them in print or even and microfilm.
You may not have used microfilm before. It's a way of preserving paper materials
that involves shrinking them to fit onto a film reel.
Nikki is looking at this one but really you would use a special microfilm reader in
the library which a librarian can help you with.
Usually microfilm is for older materials.
A simple articles citation contains
these basic elements:
the author name, title of article,
the name of the journal,
the volume number,
issue number, date of publication, the inclusive page numbers,
the database you found it in if you found it online,
the medium of publications, such as web or print,
the retrieval date, if you found it online.
In MLA format you do not need to include the URL.
Let's look at the of these elements more closely.
Here's an example of an article I found an Academic Search Premier.
The top part contains information about the article
and the bottom part contains the beginning of the article itself.
This article was originally published in Time magazine but the library subscribes
to this database
which republishes articles
in an easy to use,
online format.
You can see above that the author's name is listed
with the last name first, just as you'll list it in your MLA citation.
For articles with more than one author,
you list them in the order given,
only,
the first one will be last name first.
For more than two authors you can follow the first authors name
with the words "et al".
In any case,
the authors names should be followed by a period.
Here are some examples.
Notice that the first one has two authors
and the other, which has seven authors, uses the phrase
"et al".
The next element is the article title.
The title should be surrounded by quotation marks and followed by a peiod.
Here is an example of a citation with the title highlighted.
The name of the periodicals often located next to label called source
In this case it's Time magazine.
Noticed that there is also a publisher logo.
The name of the periodical should be italicized in your citation.
Here's our citation example with the periodical title highlighted.
Volume numbers are only necessary for scholarly journals, though some other types
of periodicals may have them.
And you should include them, if so,
just go ahead include a volume number if there is one on your article.
As with volume numbers, issue numbers may not always be available.
Just go ahead and include
an issue number if there is one for your article.
The volume and issue number should be separated by a period,
as shown in this example.
The next element is the date of publication.
For scholarly journals this will be a year only.
While for other types of publications like newspapers or magazines
it will include the month and the day, if there is one.
You can see the differences in the two example citations above.
The first one is an academic journal.
and the only day is the year included in parentheses
the second one is a newspaper article
and includes the date in dade month year format
this can be a little confusing but don't worry help is available will cover that
at the end
whatever format the davis and it should be followed by eight colin
inclusive page numbers means that you list the page number brains
the first example above shows how the page numbers displayed in our database
the seconds two examples show how they should book and in an l_a_ citation
noticed at the second example has only one page the page number should be
followed by a period in your citation
in some cases especially in the case of journals that are published online only
there may be no page numbers listed
in this case to use an abbreviation for no paint in place at the
page numbers as shown
this should also be followed by it period
if you use a database from the library's website
barn internet search engine to find an article
this is the next element
in this case i got the article is cited about from the database called today's
store
if you are shorter which database you use of library and can help
the database consulted should be an italic if you found to work in print you
need not include this element
even though most of the articles that you will find using the opportunity
library we originally published in print
he used the phrase web because that's where you found them
if on the other hand he went to the library shelves and you found the print
version of the article
you would use the word print
the two examples above are for the same article into different formats
the medium of publications should be followed by period
the very last comment is that the access
in the case of an online article only
this is in the format of the month here
as you can see in the two examples above
if you access to the article imprensa you don't need to include this element
if you're using e-print periodical lake nikki is doing here the information is
the same you'll just have to find it on the actual magazine newspaper or journal
and that's been mentioned you don't have to include the database you consulted
with a baby treat
and the medium of publication will be printed
let's see how much you remember the most important pieces of information for
locating the article are the periodical title
the volume and the issuer dates
which of the element in the citation is the periodical title
that's right its time
chemistry trail we covered how to set a journal article using emily
and where to find information articles are a little more complex to cite them
books so please contact the library and if you have questions
the information is above
another good resource is the writing center
but you can find on the it is the index linked from that the issue home page
happy citing