Articles are more complicated than books. They appear in newspapers, magazines, or journals. Newspapers and magazines are easy. They are thin (except for the Sunday edition of the New York Times), with soft covers, full of short articles.

 

Journal articles are more complicated. They are longer than newspaper or magazine articles, usually between 10 and 30 pages; they appear in collections called journals that look more like books than magazines.

 

Think of scholarly journals as books that get published periodically with same title (but different volume and number) and that contain a collection of works by different authors.

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The examples below are arranged by type and cover the most common article-form sources.

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Article in a scholarly journal:

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Fields 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 of template. Note that the journal title is in italics – it is treated like a book title. The film title (The Matrix)  in the article title is also in italics.

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Haslam, Jason. “Coded Discourse: Romancing the (Electronic) Shadow in The

Matrix.” College Literature, vol. 32, no. 3, 2005, pp. 92-115.

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Article in a scholarly journal with two or more authors.

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For the author field (Field 1) follow the same rules as for books. The rest of the entry follows the template above.

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Article in a special issue of a scholarly journal:

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Fields 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 of template. Note that this is identical to the standard article form, except for the highlighted part which contains the title of the special issue and the descriptor “spec. issue of”.

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Spencer, Martin E. “Multiculturalism, ‘Political Correctness,’ and the Politics of

Identity.” Multiculturalism and Diversity, spec. issue of Sociological Forum, vol. 9, n.4, Dec. 2009, pp. 547-567.

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Article in a scholarly journal retrieved from an online database:

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Fields 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 of template plus fields 3 and 9 of container 2. The journal (College Literature) is “container 1” while the database (Jstor) is container 2. Jstor offers a stable link, so it makes sense to cite it. Note that, except for the highlighted part, this is identical to the standard article form.

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Haslam, Jason. “Coded Discourse: Romancing the (Electronic) Shadow in The Matrix.”

College Literature, vol. 32, no. 3, 2005, pp. 92-115. JSTOR, www.j stor.org/stable/25115289.

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Article in a magazine or newspaper:

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Fields 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 of template.

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Boagey, Rachel. "Joy riding Plug-in hybrid behicles make sense in terms of flexibility and

reducing emissions, but up till now they have not necessarily been fun to drive Now, however, all that is changing, finds." Professional Engineering, Apr. 2016, Issue 4, pp. 38-42.

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Article in a magazine or newspaper retrieved from an online database:

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Fields 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 of template plus fields 3 and 9 of container 2 (highlighted). Note that the link is embedded in the text between square brackets. This is non-standard in MLA. Ask your professor if this solution is acceptable for links that are exceedingly long and complicated. The embedded link is: https://ezproxy.aur.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.452586258&site=eds-live. To embed a hyperlink in Microsoft Word, select the target text, right click on the selection, select Hyperlink in the pop up menu, and past the copied link in the Address field. Press ok. To edit a hyperlink, right click on it and select Edit Hyperlink.

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Boagey, Rachel. "Joy riding Plug-in hybrid vehicles make sense in terms of flexibility and reducing emissions, but up till now they have not necessarily been fun to drive Now, however, all that is changing, finds." Professional Engineering, Apr. 2016, Issue 4, pp. 38-42. EBSCOhost [link].