Magazines and Newspapers

This section shows how to prepare works cited entries for articles in magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.

14. Article in a magazine or newspaper

List the following elements, in order, separated by periods:

1. The author's name
2. The title of the article, in quotation marks
3. The title of the magazine, underlined
4. The date and the page numbers, separated by a colon

Last, First. "Title of Article" Name of Magazine or Newspaper. Day Month Year: page number.

Lord, Lewis. "There's Something about Mary Todd." US News and World Report 19 Feb. 2001: 53.

Reimer, Mary. "Pioneer Day Parade Disaster". The Carillon. 11 August 2008: 2.