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MLA Style: Basics

This guide is meant to be a brief introduction to MLA and to provide general formatting and citation guidelines for this manual of style.

Magazine Articles


Print Magazine Article

General Format:

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine, vol. #, no. #, Date, p. #.

OR

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine, vol. #, no. #, Date, pp. #-#.

For Example:

Elbein, Saul. "A Final Fight for the Keystone Pipeline." Rolling Stone, no. 1298, pp. 24-25.

 

 

Electronic Magazine Article

General Format:

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine, vol. #, no. #, Date, p. #. Database Name, URL/DOI (without the http://).

OR

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine, vol. #, no. #, Date, pp. #-#. Database Name, URL/DOI (without the http://).

For Example:

Nijhuis, Michelle and Keith Ladzinski. "The Parks of Tomorrow." National Geographic, vol. 230, no. 6, Dec. 2016, pp. 102-121. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.lawsonstate.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=119321391&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

 

 

Online Magazine Article

General Format:

AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine, Date, URL/DOI (without the http://).

For Example:

Meyer, Robinson. "The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change: What Lurks in the Arctic's thawing permafrost?" The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2017, www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/the-zombie-diseases-of-climate-

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