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Journal articles

Footnotes

Author, ‘Article Title’, Periodical Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Lila Corwin Berman, ‘Jewish Urban Politics in the City and Beyond’, The Journal of American History, 99/2 (2012), 493.

Bibliography

Author, ‘Article Title’, Periodical Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Berman, Lila Corwin, ‘Jewish Urban Politics in the City and Beyond’, The Journal of American History, 99/2 (2012), 492-519.

Notes
  • If you have an article as a PDF document, cite it as you would a print journal; the PDF version is exactly the same as the print version.
  • You do not need to state anywhere that it is a PDF
  • If you do not have the PDF version of an article, see the instructions for citing an ‘Article from a database (non-PDF)’
  • Any journal which requires your university login should be cited as an ‘Article from a database’
  • A journal that belongs to a database will always have visible information about the database name, i.e. ProQuest, JStor, Expanded Academic, Cambridge Journals, etc.
  • If you are unsure whether or not the journal is in a database, contact the librarians at your campus library.

 

Footnotes

Author, ‘Article Title’, Periodical Title, volume/issue (year), para. number, in Database Name [online database], access date.

Stephen Daisley, ‘New Sheriffs of the Old West: How Superhero Gunslingers Tell the Story of America’, Commentary, 134/2 (2012), para. 5, in Expanded Academic ASAP [online database], accessed 28 Nov. 2012.

Derek John Roberts, ‘Secret Ink: Tattoo’s Place in Contemporary American Culture’, The Journal of American Culture, 35/2 (2012), para. 2, in ProQuest [online database], accessed 28 Nov. 2012.

Bibliography

Author, ‘Article Title’, Periodical Title, volume/issue (year), in Database Name [online database], access date.

Daisley, Stephen, ‘New Sheriffs of the Old West: How Superhero Gunslingers Tell the Story of America’, Commentary, 134/2 (2012), in Expanded Academic ASAP [online database], accessed 28 Nov. 2012.

Roberts, Derek John, ‘Secret Ink: Tattoo’s Place in Contemporary American Culture’, The Journal of American Culture, 35/2 (2012), para. 2, in ProQuest [online database], accessed 28 Nov. 2012.

Notes
  •  This example differs from referencing a PDF because the online html version of an article won’t have page numbers to refer to.
  • Instead of citing a page number, refer to the paragraph number. Don’t worry if it isn’t exact; just give a good estimation of where to find the quote you used.
  • Any journal which requires your university login should be cited as an ‘Article from a database’
  • A journal that belongs to a database will always have visible information about the database name, i.e. ProQuest, JStor, Expanded Academic, Cambridge Journals, etc.
  • If you are unsure whether or not the journal is in a database, contact the librarians at your campus library
  • For clarification of this style rule see section 15.15.3 of R.M. Ritter, Oxford Style Manual (Oxford: OUP, 2003). .
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Author, ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Emma Moreton, ‘Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections’, Gender and History, 24/3 (2012), 627.

Bibliography

Author, ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Moreton, Emma, ‘Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections’, Gender and History, 24/3 (2012), 617-646.

Footnotes

Author and Author, ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Mark Pendleton and Tanya Serisier, ‘Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics’, Australian Feminist Law Journal, 31 (2009), 92-4.

Bibliography

Author and Author, ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Pendleton, Mark and Serisier, Tanya, ‘Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics’, Australian Feminist Law Journal, 31 (2009), 77-98.

Footnotes

First Author et al., ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

M.H. Moncel et al., ‘Non-Utilitarian Lithic Objects from the European Paleolithic’, Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 40/1 (2012), 29.

Bibliography

First Author et al., ‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

Moncel, M.H. et al., ‘Non-Utilitarian Lithic Objects from the European Paleolithic’, Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 40/1 (2012), 24-40.

Footnotes

‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

‘Federation Square: A Tribute to the Skill of the Construction Industry’, Construct in Steel, 15/2 (2002), 13.

Bibliography

‘Article Title’, Journal Title, volume/issue (year), page extent.

‘Federation Square: A Tribute to the Skill of the Construction Industry’, Construct in Steel, 15/2 (2002), 12-14.

Notes
  • If an article has no known author (i.e. if it is anonymous) list it alphabetically by its title in the bibliography.
  • For journal articles without an author, do not use Anon for the bibliography entry; this is only for books.
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Author, ‘Article title’, Journal Title [online journal], volume/issue (year), page or para. number, URL, access date.

Paul D. Shapiro, ‘Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy the Vampire Slayer – A Quantitative Analysis, Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies [online journal], 7/2 (2008), para. 11, http://slayageonline.com/PDF/Shapiro.pdf, accessed 26 Nov. 2012.

Philip Morrissey, ‘Aboriginal Children’, Australian Humanities Review [online journal], 42 (2007), para. 4, http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-August-September-2007/Morrissey.html, accessed 26 Nov. 2012.

Bibliography

Author, ‘Article title’, Journal Title [online journal], volume/issue (year), page extent if relevant, URL, access date.

Morrissey, Philip, ‘Aboriginal Children’, Australian Humanities Review [online journal], 42 (2007), http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-August-September-2007/Morrissey.html, accessed 26 Nov. 2012.

Shapiro, Paul D., ‘Someone to Sink Your Teeth Into: Gendered Biting Patterns on Buffy the Vampire Slayer – A Quantitative Analysis, Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies [online journal], 7/2 (2008), http://slayageonline.com/PDF/Shapiro.pdf, accessed 26 Nov. 2012.

Notes
  • This citation is for articles from online journals which do not belong to a library database
  • The two examples above are both freely accessible online journals that do not require logins
  • If the article has page numbers, cite the exact page number of your quote or paraphrase in the footnote and the extent of the page numbers in the bibliography; if there aren’t page numbers, refer to the paragraph number in the footnote instead. Don’t worry if it isn’t exact; just give a good estimation of where to find the quote you used.
  • Open-access journals can be referenced with this citation style
  • Any journal which requires your university login should be cited as an ‘Article from a database’
  • A journal that belongs to a database will always have visible information about the database name, i.e. ProQuest, JStor, Expanded Academic, Cambridge Journals, etc.
  • If you are unsure whether or not the journal is in a database, contact the librarians at your campus library
  • If you are also unsure about the quality of an online journal, contact the librarians at your campus library
  • For clarification of this style rule see section 15.15.3 of R.M. Ritter, Oxford Style Manual (Oxford: OUP, 2003)