How to Cite a Journal in MLA Format

Basic Information

• In previous versions, MLA called for researchers to establish whether or not a scholar used continuous pagination (page numbers began at page one in the initial issue of the years and page numbers continued from where they left off in successive ones) or non-continuous pagination (page numbers begin at page one in every successive issue) so that to establish whether or not to take into account of the issue numbers in bibliographic entries. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th edition (2009) does away with this step. If issue numbers are available, always provide.

—Author(s)."Title of Article." Title of Journal. Volume. Issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication.

—Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. "New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture. 44.4 (1991): 429-41. Print.

Electronic Journal

• For electronic journal give the author(s) name(s), the name of the article in quotation marks, the title of the publication in italics, all volume and issue numbers, and the year of publication.

—Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. "New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture. 44.4 (1991): 429-41. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Web. 26 April 2006.