This guide provides examples of periodical citations in MLA style along with directions for choosing appropriate examples to follow as you complete Assignment 3. If you have questions about periodicals citations that are unanswered by this guide, ask a librarian at the reference desk for help.
Journals are a particular kind of periodical that are cited differently than popular magazines.
In addition, there are two ways to cite journals depending on if they are continuously paginated or not. Continuously paginated journals begin the first issue of a volume on page number one and, with each successive issue, continue on until the last page of the last issue in the volume is reached. You need to include the volume number but not the issue number in a citation for a continuously paginated journal. Non-continuously paginated journals begin each issue of a volume on page one and run through the last page of the issue. Subsequent issues begin again at page one.