Citing Periodicals

In APA, none of the months are abbreviated. The format in APA for dates is year, month, and day.

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APA Format

Daily/Weekly Publication 2002, October 14

Monthly Publication 2002, October

If an article in a magazine or newspaper does not appear on continuous pages (for example, if the essay is interrupted by an ad, or if it is continued elsewhere in the source), in APA, each page in which the article appears should be written down.

Example: APA Format

Page numbers (non-continuous)

42, 44-46, 87

Newspapers are daily, sometimes weekly, publications. Here is the format for an article in a newspaper. Remember that in APA, quotation marks are not used around the essay title in the References page (they are, however, used in the text of the paper in APA).

Note: These citations are for a hard-version of a newspaper article. This is not the citation for finding a newspaper article on an electronic database. This is also not the format for finding a newspaper online.

Format:

Last name, First initial. (Date published). Article title. Magazine

Title, pages of article. Gottlieb, J. (2004, December 1). 4 hearts, 1 marriage. The New York

Times, p. A1, A5.

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Below are the examples for a magazine article. Magazines can be monthly or weekly publications, so make sure you note which it is. Remember that in APA, quotation marks are not used around the essay title in the References page (they are, however, used in the text of the paper in APA).

Note: These citations are for a hard-version of an essay in a magazine. This is not the citation for finding an essay in a magazine on an electronic database. This is also not the format for finding a magazine online.

Format:Last name, First initial. (Date published). Article title. Magazine

Title, volume, pages of article. Oppenheim, N. (2004, December). Big important book of the month.

Esquire, 58.

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Below are the examples for an essay in a journal. Journals can be published monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, or yearly. Journals have an issue and volume number that will need to be in the citation. Note that in APA, the volume issue is in italics and the issue number is in parentheses. The issue number is not in italics.

Note: These citations are for a hard-version of a journal essay. This is not the citation for finding a journal on an electronic database.

Format:Last name, First initial. (Year published). Essay title. Journal Title,

volume(issue), pages of essay. Greer, A. (2004). Natives and nationalism: The Americanization of

Kateri Tekakwitha. The Catholic Historical Review, 90(4),

260-72.

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