Works Cited Entries for Periodicals
What Are Periodicals? What, Exactly, is Covered in This Section?
The term “periodicals” is an umbrella term that generally refers to a range of texts published periodically, including magazines, academic journals, and newspapers. These texts are published across a range of formats, and while the documentation process is similar across these different modalities, key differences exist as well. Consequently, this section will review both print and digital variations of these sources. Perhaps most importantly, this section also explains how to cite articles from online databases, including resources that you acquire through Florida SouthWestern State College’s library databases.
Remember, the basic concept for documenting sources remains consistent, and you will notice that all of the following Works Cited entries follow the same basic format outlined below:
Magazine Articles
Print Magazine Articles
If you are accessing a print magazine article, then you will need just one container for publication information.
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Gallivan, Joseph. “Against the Odds.” Oregon Humanities, summer 2008, pp. 16-24.
Online Magazine Articles
If you are accessing a magazine article directly from the web, you will most likely need just one container to present publication information.
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Bilger, Burkhard. “The Height Gap.” The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2004, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/04/05/the-height-gap.
Journal Articles
Print Journal Articles
If you are accessing a print journal article, then you will need just one container for publication information.
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Pasquaretta, Paul. “On the Indianness’ of Bingo: Gambling and the Native American Community.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 20, no. 4, 1994, pp. 151-187.
Online Journal Articles
If you are accessing a journal article directly from the journal’s website, you will most likely need just one container to present publication information.
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Collins, Ross. “Writing and Desire: Synthesizing Rhetorical Theories of Genre and Lacanian Theories of the Unconscious.” Composition Forum, vol. 33, spring 2016, compositionforum.com/issue/33/writing-desire.php.
NOTES: DOIs (digital object identifiers) are the preferred location element for online content. If there is not a DOI, a permalink is the next preferred choice followed by the URL. Unless the URL is hyperlinked, you do not need http:// or https:// included in the URL address.
A season in the ninth edition is in lowercase if it follows a comma.
Newspapers
Sources from a Print Newspaper
Newspapers contain a variety of document types. This entry reviews three of the more common types that you may encounter. If you are using a type not documented below, the same general process can be applied to successfully create a Works Cited entry for that item.
Article
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Tamisiea, Jack. “‘Big John,’ a High-Profile Triceratops, Locked Horns With Its Own Kind, Study Suggests.” The New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022, pp. 1+.
Book Review
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Williams, Joy. “Rogue Territory.” The New York Times Book Review, 9 Nov. 2014, pp. 1+.
Letter to the Editor
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Popper, Ellen Silverman. “‘It Lifts My Heart’: Praise for Jackson’s Confirmation to the Court.” The New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022, pp. 1+.
Sources from an Online Newspaper
If you are accessing a newspaper article, book review, or letter to the editor directly from the web, you will most likely need just one container to present publication information.
Article
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St. Fleur, Nicholas. “City Bees Stick to a Flower Diet Rather Than Slurp Up Soda.” The New York Times, 19 May 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/science/urban-bees-diet-flowers-soda.html.
Book Review
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Becker, Alida. “A Return to Even Less Enlightened Eras.” Review of Black Cloud Rising by David Wright. The New York Times, 22, Mar. 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/books/review/black-cloud-rising-david-wright-falade.html.
Letter to the Editor
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Popper, Ellen Silverman. “‘It Lifts My Heart’: Praise for Jackson’s Confirmation to the Court.” The New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/opinion/letters/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html.
Articles from a Database
As noted in the introduction, this section explains how to cite articles from online databases. This includes resources that you acquire through Florida SouthWestern State College’s library databases.
Works Cited Entries for Databases Have Two Containers: The Journal & the Database
Works Cited entries of this type have an extra layer to them. If you are accessing a journal article from a database, you will need two containers to present the original publication information (the journal title and the online database). Both of these sources will need to be in italics. You will also need to include the access information for the database in the form of a URL or document identification number.
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Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, spring 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188.
A season (winter, spring, etc.) in the ninth edition is in lowercase if it follows a comma.
The above content has been drawn from the Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL). It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International License.
