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7th ed Magazine Article Examples

Magazine Articles


NOTE: Don't forget to indent the second and subsequent lines. 

General Format

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date). Title of article. Title of magazine, Volume(Issue), page numbers.

For Example

No Author

The summer inferno: Fires in Australia. (2020, January 4). Human dignity-centered business ethics: A conceptual framework for business leaders. The Economist, 434(9175), 25.

With Author

Coe, J. (2019, June 17). How Brexit broke Britain. TIME Magazine, 193(23), 32.

Corresponding In-Text Citation

No Author

("The summer inferno", 2019)

OR

"The summer inferno" (2019)


With Author

(Coe, 2019)

OR

Coe (2019)

General Format

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date). Title of article. Title of magazine, Volume(Issue), page numbers. DOI

For Example

Sansone, A. E. (2020, February). Natural benefits of pomegranate. Prevention, 72(2), 24-25.

Manning, P. (2019, November 15). Piling on the pressures to ecosystems: Identifying dangerous combinations of assaults could prevent ecosystem collapse. Science, 366(6467), 801. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz9000

NOTE: If the article doesn't have a DOI end the citation after the page number(s).

Corresponding In-Text Citation

(Sansone, 2020)

OR

Sansone (2020)


(Manning, 2019)

OR

Manning (2019)

General Format

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date). Title of article. Title of magazine. URL

For Example

Ross, A. (2020, January 13). The past and the future of the earth’s oldest trees. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/20/the-past-and-the-future-of-the-earths-oldest-trees

Corresponding In-Text Citation

(Ross, 2020)

OR

Ross (2020)

More Information

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