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MLA Citation Style, 8th Edition: Journal Article

A University of Lethbridge Library guide to MLA style citations.

pp. 21, 27-28, 30, 39-40.

Example 1 – Print

Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, Publication Date, pp. <page range>.

IT:     (Hinrichsen 49)

WC:   Hinrichsen, Lisa. "A Defensive Eye: Anxiety, Fear and Form in the Poetry of Robert Frost." Journal of Modern

                  Literature, vol. 31, no.3, 2008, pp. 44-57.

 

Example 2 – Electronic

Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, Publication Date, pp. <page range>. Online Database, DOI or URL.

IT:     (Johansson 231-33)

WC:   Johansson, Sara. "A Participle Account of Blackfoot Relative Clauses." The Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol.

                  58, no.2, July 2013, pp. 217-38. Project Muse, muse.jhu.edu/article/527942.