Magazine articles - Author-date style: citing specific types of sources - Source citation

A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations, Ninth edition - Kate L. Turabian 2018

Magazine articles
Author-date style: citing specific types of sources
Source citation

Articles in magazines are cited much like journal articles (see 19.2), but dates and page numbers are treated differently.

Cite magazines by date only, even if they are numbered by volume and issue. In reference list entries, put the year in the usual position and the month and day (if specified) after the magazine title (but not in parentheses). You can repeat the year with the month and day in the reference list entry to avoid any confusion regarding the exact date. If you cite a specific passage in a parenthetical citation, include its page number. But you may omit the article’s inclusive page numbers in a reference list entry, since magazine articles often span many pages that include extraneous material. (If you do include page numbers, use a comma rather than a colon to separate them from the date of issue.) As with journals, you can omit an initial The from the magazine title (see also 22.3.2.1).

R:

✵ Lepore, Jill. 2016. “The Woman Card.” New Yorker, June 27, 2016.

P:

✵ (Lepore 2016, 23)

If you cite a department or column that appears regularly, capitalize it headline-style and do not enclose it in quotation marks.

R:

✵ Walraff, Barbara. 2005. Word Court. Atlantic Monthly, June 2005.

P:

✵ (Walraff 2005, 128)

Magazine articles consulted online should include in the reference list entry a URL (see also 15.4.1.3) or the name of a commercial database (see 15.4.1.4). Typically there will be no page numbers to cite.

R:

✵ Lukianoff, Greg, and Jonathan Haidt. 2015. “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Atlantic, September 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/.

✵ Williams, Michael K. 2016. Interview by Eliana Dockterman. Time, July 25, 2016. EBSCOhost.

P:

✵ (Lukianoff and Haidt 2015)

✵ (Williams 2016)

Magazine articles published online sometimes include readers’ comments. These are cited like comments on blog posts (see 19.5.2).