Finding & Citing Print Periodical Articles

Library 10 –Information Competency

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Presentation topics:

• Periodical indexes in print

• Using a periodical index

• Locating an article from an index

• Citing periodical articles

Print periodical indexes

• Help you find periodical articles by subject.

• Are most useful when looking for articles published before 1985.

Print periodical indexes in the library

Finding print indexes

How to select a print index

Consider the following:

• The topic or subject

• Type of material covered

• Years indexed

Example search: “Son of Sam”

Find articles published between July 29, 1976 and December 1977 having to do with “Son of Sam.”

Select an index

Find articles published between July 29, 1976 and December 1977 having to do with “Son of Sam.”

New York Times Index: 1977

Readers’ Guide: Vol. 37: Mar 1977-Feb 1978

Citing periodical articles

• Author• Title• Source• Date• Page number(s)

Finding the citation information

Finding the citation information 2

Newspaper - MLA

Saxon, Wolfgang. “Women Dies in Mystery

Shooting.” New York Times 31 Jan. 1977: A26. Print.

…New York Times 2 Jan. 1998, late ed.: A11+. Print

Tucker, Carl. “The Night TV Cried Wolf.”

Saturday Review 1 Oct. 1977: 56. Print.

Scholarly Journal – MLA

Loss, John Timothy. “Criminals Selling Their

Stories: The First Amendment Requires

Legislative Reexamination.” Cornell Law

Review 72.2 (1987): 1331-55. Print.

Magazine - MLA

Periodical types in NoodleTools

This presentation covered:

• Periodical indexes in print

• Using a periodical index

• Locating an article from an index

• Citing periodical articles