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Citing a magazine - MLA

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Magazine: A publication that is issued periodically and contains items such


as articles, essays, poems, or pictures

Structure: Last, First M. “Article title.” Magazine Day Month Year: Page(s).
Print.

Cover Magazine Title

Date of publication
OCTOBER 2008

Article page

Author: Davy Rothbart

Article Title: How I Caught up with Dad

108 Start page End page: 113 Found by flipping through the magazine

Citation: Rothbart, Davy. “How I Caught up with Dad.” Men’s Health Oct.
2008: 108-13. Print.

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Citing a published magazine found on a website - MLA
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Structure: Last, First M. “Article title.” Magazine Day Month Year: Page(s).
Website. Web. Date accessed. <URL>.
*Note: URL is optional. Consult your teacher

Website: Google books

Data accessed: Depends on the day


When did you access the source? Web sources may change and must be considered unique

Note: When citing sources reproduced online from their in print version, it is not necessary to
include online information such as the website publisher or the date of electronic publication

Citation: Rothbart, Davy. “How I Caught up with Dad.” Men’s Health Oct.
2008: 108-13. Google books. Web. 16 Mar. 2010.

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Citing a magazine article published directly or
simultaneously online – MLA

Structure: Last, First M. “Article.” Website / Magazine name. Website


publisher, Date published. Web. Date accessed. <URL>.
*Note: URL is optional. Consult your teacher

Website / Magazine Publisher: Conde Nast Digital


The magazine name is the same Looking at the bottom of the page we find that
as the website name Conde Nast Digital publishes the online version of the
New Yorker

Article

Authors

August 28, 2006 Date of Electronic publication


Data accessed: Depends on the day
When did you access the source? Web sources may change and must be considered unique

Online Magazine or Website? Because we cannot identify separate in print publication


information, we can assume this source was published either online only, or simultaneously online
and in print. We therefore do not need to account for standard magazine publication information, but
instead, mainly website information. Such information will help your reader identify the source

Citation: Nasar, Sylvia, and David Gruber. "Manifold Destiny." The New Yorker.
Conde Nast Digital, 28 Aug. 2006. Web. 30 Mar. 2010.

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Citing a published magazine found in a database - MLA
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Structure: Last, First M. “Article title.” Magazine Day Month Year: Page(s).
Database. Web. Date accessed. <URL>.

Database *Note: URL is optional. Consult your teacher

Magazine

Date originally
published

Article title
According to magazine, official
title is: China’s export prospects:
Fear of the dragon

Data accessed: Depends on the day


When did you access the source? Web sources may change and must be considered unique

Author: Not available

Page numbers: Not available


Oftentimes there are no page identifiers for online sources

Citation: “China’s Export Prospects: Fear of the Dragon.” The Economist 9 Jan.
2010. Lexis Nexus Academic. Web. 20 Mar.2010.

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