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MLA (9th ed.): Journal Articles - Example Citations

Provides example citations used in works cited pages.

Please Note

Check with your instructor about including the database name/vendor, DOIs, permalinks, or URLs.  Some want that information, others do not.  The citations below do not include that information.

Journal Article with a DOI

If an article has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) include it in the citation.  It is usually found on the first page of the article.  This citation also includes a book title within
the article title - the book title is italicized.

 

Gordon, Stephen. “Social Monsters and the Walking Dead in William of Newburgh’s Historia Rerum Anglicarum.” Journal of Medieval History, vol. 41, no. 4,

     Dec. 2015, pp. 446-65. doi:10.1080/03044181.2015.1078255.

Journal Article - HTML Text Only (no page numbers)

Include the URL for the article, omitting http://

 

“Who Knows Who Knows Who’s There? An Epistemology of Hamlet.” Early Modern Literary Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2004.

 

Journal Article with One Author

Soares, Michael. “The Man of Tomorrow: Superman from American Exceptionalism to Globalization.” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 48, no. 4,

     pp. 747-61.

Journal Article with Two Authors

Tenga, Angela, and Elizabeth Zimmerman. “Vampire Gentlemen and Zombie Beasts.” Gothic Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, May 2013, pp. 76-87.

Journal Article with Three or More Authors

Use only the first author's name, followed by et al.  (Latin for "and others" ; there is no period after et, there is a period after al.)

Rochman, Chelsea M., et al. “Plastic Debris and Policy: Using Current Scientific Understanding to Invoke Positive Change.” Environmental Toxicology &

     Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 7, 2016, pp. 1617-26. 

Journal Article with a Book Title in the Article Title

If a journal article title includes the title of a book, italicize the title of the book.

 

Bosnak, Dmitry. "The Three Stages of Evil: The Writers in The Master and Margarita and the Rejection of Evil in Psalm 1." Scando-Slavica, vol. 63,

     no. 2, Dec. 2017, pp. 212-26. 

Print Journal Articles

Print journal articles follow the examples above. 

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