MLA Style:  Article Citation With Volume 

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This is the FORMAT for citing an article in a scholarly journal:

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal

          Vol. (Year): pages. 

"Vol" indicates the volume number of the journal. If the journal uses continuous pagination throughout a particular volume, only volume and year are needed, e.g. Modern Fiction Studies 39 (1993): 156-174.  If each issue of the journal begins on page 1, however, you must also provide the issue number following the volume, e.g. Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 33-49. 

This is an EXAMPLE:

Lewis, George H.  "Community Through Exclusion

    and Illusion:  The Creation of Social Worlds

      in an American Shopping Mall." Journal of

      Popular Culture 24 (1990): 121-36.

Because of the limitations of webpage formatting, you may not see the entry above with a "hanging indent."  You should, however, format your citations with a hanging indent as you see in the example page.  

You do this in MSWord by highlighting your entire "Works Cited" page, selecting "Format," "Paragraph," "Indentation, Special (select "hanging"), By (enter ".5").  

This is also a good time to format for double spacing, then your formatting is correct no matter what changes you make to the text.


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