Journal articles
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Overview
For academic journal articles:
- Include the volume number and issue number.
- Some journals use the month in addition to, or instead of, a volume and issue number.
- Some online journals use an article number instead of a volume and issue number.
- Most journal articles sourced online or from a Library database are cited the same way as print articles – in most cases you do not need to include a URL nor a date accessed.
- Include a DOI if the article has one.
- Note that news articles are cited differently to journal articles. See Other sources.
Footnotes
A. Author, 'Title of Article', Title of Journal, volume/issue (year), page. DOI
13. R.A. Goldthwaite, 'The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture', American Historical Review, 77/4 (1972), 999, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/77.4.977
14. A. Haebich, ‘Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism and the History of Indigenous Child Removal in Australia’, Australian Indigenous Law Review, 19/1 (2015), 26–7.
Online article – no DOI and no page numbers
- If an online article is available on a web page only and there is no DOI, provide the URL and date accessed.
- If an online article has no page numbers, provide paragraph references.
A. Author, 'Title of article', Title of Journal, volume/issue (Month year), paragraph, URL, accessed date.
16. S.K. Martin, ‘Tracking Reading in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne Diaries’, Australian Humanities Review, 56 (May 2014), para. 6, http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org, accessed 23 June 2020.
Bibliography
Provide the page range of the article.
Goldthwaite, R.A., 'The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture', American Historical Review, 77/4 (1972), 997–1012, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/77.4.977
Haebich, A., ‘Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism and the History of Indigenous Child Removal in Australia’, Australian Indigenous Law Review ,19/1 (2015), 20–31.
Martin, S.K., ‘Tracking Reading in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne Diaries’, Australian Humanities Review, 56 (May 2014), http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org, accessed 23 June 2020.
In press
- Use the term “in press” to refer to a peer-reviewed article accepted for publication in a future issue of a journal.
- Use the term “advance online publication” to refer to a peer-reviewed article that has not yet gone to print.
- If a DOI not yet is available, provide the URL of the journal home page.
- If the issue, volume or page number is not confirmed, do not guess. Simply leave out this information.
Footnote
A. Author & B. Author, 'Title of Article', Title of Journal, in press, (year).
2. E. K. Russell, & B. Carlton, ‘Counter–Carceral Acoustemologies: Sound, Permeability and Feminist Protest at the Prison Boundary’, Theoretical Criminology, in press, (2018).
Bibliography
Russell, E. K. & Carlton, B., ‘Counter–Carceral Acoustemologies: Sound, Permeability and Feminist Protest at the Prison Boundary’, Theoretical Criminology, in press, (2018).
Review
- Include the title of the review only if it has a title different from the name of the book being reviewed.
- In addition to details of the review and the journal, include the publication details of the book being reviewed.
Footnote
A. Reviewer, review of B. Author, Title of Book (Place: Publisher, year), in Title of Journal, issue/volume (year), page.
13. F. Ames-Lewis, review of R. Lightbrown, Mantegna (Oxford: Phaidon, 1986), in Renaissance Studies, 1 (1987), 276.
14. R. Porter, ‘Lion of the Laboratory’, review of G.L. Geison, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (Princeton University Press, 1995), in TLS (16 June 1995), 3.
Bibliography
Include the page range of the review.
Ames-Lewis, F., review of R. Lightbrown, Mantegna (Oxford: Phaidon, 1986), in Renaissance Studies, 1 (1987), 273–9.
Porter, R., ‘Lion of the Laboratory’, review of G.L. Geison, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur (Princeton, 1995), in TLS (16 June 1995), 3–4.