Magazine articles are cited like journal articles except for the date and page number information. For magazine articles, only include the date of the publication (even if the issue has a volume and issue number) and do not enclose the information in parentheses. You may also omit the inclusive page numbers of the article in the bibliographic entry because magazine articles often span many pages due to extra material like advertisements. If the page numbers are included, precede the numbers with a comma rather than a colon (17.3).
Note: Please be mindful of assignment requirements and check them carefully. Most academic assignments do not allow for the use of magazine articles. If your professor asks for scholarly sources, you want to avoid magazines and look for scholarly journals instead.
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General Format
Footnote:
Superscript Note Number Author First Name/Initial Last Name, "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article," Magazine Title, Date of Publication, XX-XX.
Bibliographic Entry:
Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article." Magazine Title, Date of Publication.
Examples
Footnote:
11 Jill Lepore, "The Woman Card," New Yorker, June 27, 2016, 23.
Bibliographic Entry:
Lepore, Jill. "The Woman Card." New Yorker, June 27, 2016. (Always use hanging indents for bibliography entries.)