Introduction
Bibliographic citations of journal articles require some or all of the following elements. Remember that each element is separated by a period (unless shown otherwise below):
As with all other citations, the publication date of the reference will be placed directly after the title when using Author-Date style.
Basic Layout
(Footnote/Endnote)
Author Lastname, Firstname. “Article Title: Subtitle.” Title of Journal vol. title, vol. # (Publication Month, Year): page numbers. URL/DOI.
(Author-Date)
Author Lastname, Firstname. Year. “Article Title: Subtitle.” Title of Journal vol. title, vol. # (Publication Month): page numbers. URL/DOI.
Examples
(Footnote/Endnote & Author-Date)
(FN/EN)
Olson, Hope A. “Codes, Costs, and Critiques: The Organization of Information in Library Quarterly, 1931-2004.” Library Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2006): 20.
(A-D)
Olson, Hope A. 2006. “Codes, Costs, and Critiques: The Organization of Information in Library Quarterly, 1931-2004.” Library Quarterly 76, no. 1: 20.
(FN/EN)
Lewis, Judith. “’Tis a Misfortune to Be a Great Ladie’: Maternal Mortality in the British Aristocracy, 1558-1959.” Journal of British Studies 37, no. 1 (1998): 26-53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/176034.
(A-D)
Lewis, Judith. 1998. “’Tis a Misfortune to Be a Great Ladie’: Maternal Mortality in the British Aristocracy, 1558-1959.” Journal of British Studies 37, no. 1: 26-53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/176034.