This document provides instructions for citing journal articles in MLA style in 3 different scenarios: 1) Articles found through an online database require citing the database name. 2) Print articles list the journal title, volume/issue, page numbers, and year. 3) Online articles not in a database are similar but also list the date accessed. Journal articles are publications by professional organizations and can be scholarly or popular in nature.

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Citing a Journal (MLA)
Citing a journal article found through a database
Journal: A periodical published by a special group or
professional organization. Often focused around a particular
area of study or interest. Can be scholarly in nature (featuring
peer-reviewed articles), or popular (such as trade publications).
*Online databases provide access to thousands of journal articles. It is
important to identify the database name when citing a journal article found
through a database.
Structure: Last, First M. "Article Title." Journal Title. Series
Volume.Issue (Year published): Page-Page. Database
Name. Web. Date Month Year Accessed.
Database
name
Article title
Author
Journal
Title
Year of
Publicati
on
Page
s
Citation: Manning, Paul. "YouTube, 'Drug Videos' and Drugs
Education." Drugs: Education, Prevention &
Policy 20.2 (2013): 120-30. Academic Search
Complete. Web. 3 Apr. 2013.
Date accessed: This is the day that the article was
found and read.
Volume
and issue
numbers**If you cannot identify a series, leave it out
of the citation.

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Citing a Journal (MLA)
Structure: Last, First M., and First M. Last. “Article title.”
Journal Title. Series Volume.Issue (Year
Published): Page-Page. Print.
Citation: Anand, Raktima, Akhilesh Gupta, Anshu Gupta, Sonia
Wadhawan, and Poonam Bhadoria. “Management
of Swine-flu Patients in the Intensive Care Unit:
Our Experience.” Journal of Anaesthesiology
Clinical Pharmacology 28.1 (2012): 51-55. Print.
Journal: A periodical published by a special group or
professional organization. Often focused around a particular
area of study or interest. Can be scholarly in nature (featuring
peer-reviewed articles), or popular (such as trade publications).
Citing a journal article in print
Author(
s)
Article
title
Journal
title
Volume
and issue
numbers
Year of
publication
Much of the publication data can be found at the article’s footer,
near the page numbers:*If you cannot identify a series, leave it out
of the citation.

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Citing a Journal (MLA)
Date Accessed: This is the day that the article was found and read.
Structure: Last, First M and First M. Last. “Article title.” Journal
Title. Series Volume.Issue (Year Published): Page-
Page. Website Publication Year. Web. Date Month
Year Accessed.
Citation: Marsh, Joanne, and Gill Evans. “Generating
Research Income: Library Involvement in
Academic Research.” Library and Information
Research 36.113 (2012): 48-61. 2013. Web. 2 Apr.
2013.
Citing an online journal article (not found using a database)
Journal
title
Article
title
Autho
rs
Volume,
Issue,
Publication
Year
Journal: A periodical published by a special group or
professional organization. Often focused around a particular
area of study or interest. Can be scholarly in nature (featuring
peer-reviewed articles), or popular (such as trade publications).
*Some journal articles are accessible online without the use of a database.
Citing an online journal article is similar to citing a print journal article,
except that you include the date you found it.
*If you cannot identify a series, leave it out
of the citation.