Periodicals: Journals, Magazines, Newspapers

Citing articles in journals with continuous pagination

Passons, W. (1967). Predictive validities of the ACT, SAT, and high school grades for first semester GPA and freshman courses. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 27, 1143-1144.

Citing articles in journals with non-continuous pagination

Sawyer, J. (1966). Measurement and prediction, clinical and statistical. Psychological Bulletin, 66(3), 78-100.

Because pagination begins anew with each issue of this journal, it is necessary to include the issue number in parentheses after the volume number. Note that there is a comma between the issue number and the page numbers, but no comma between the volume number (in italics) and the issue number.

Citing articles in monthly periodicals with no volume number

Chandler-Crisp, S. (1988, May) Aerobic writing: A writing practice model. Writing Lab Newsletter, 9-11.

Citing articles in weekly periodicals

Kauffmann, S. (1993, October 18). On films: Class consciousness. The New Republic, 30.

Newspaper articles (note that p. or pp. is placed before page numbers in newspapers) (print version)

Monson, M. (1993, September 16). Urbana firm obstacle to office project. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, pp. A1, A3, A5-A7.

(online version: give the URL of the home page when the online version of the article is available by search to avoid nonworking URLs)

Monson, M. (1993, September 16). Urbana firm obstacle to office project. The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. Retrieved from http://www.news-gazette.com

No author identified

Clinton puts “human face” on health-care plan. (1993, September 16). The New York Times, p. B1.

Multiple Authors

When a work has up to (and including) seven [5th edition listed only first six authors.] authors, cite all authors (last name followed by initials). Place a comma after the last name of each author and after that author’s initial(s). Place an ampersand (&) before the last author.

Festinger, L., Cramer, C. J., Riecken, H., Boyd, E. C., Cohen, E. G., Gill, T. G., & Schachter, S. (1956). When prophecy fails. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Grice, H. P., & Gregory, R. L. (1968). Early language development. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Eight or more authors:

Provide last names and initials of first six authors, insert three ellipsis points, and add the last author’s name. [5th edition added et al. after sixth author.]

Roeder, K., Howard, J., Fulton, L., Lochhead, M., Craig, K., Peterson, R., . . . Boyd, E. C. (1967). Nerve cells and insect behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.