4. Footnotes

4.3. Articles in Journals

Footnoting a journal or periodical is similar to footnoting a chapter from a book, but with a few key differences. The information should be presented in the following order:

1. Author’s name

2. Title of article (in single quotation marks but not followed by the word ‘in’)

3. Title of periodical (in italics, in full)

4. Volume number and date of publication as follows: number (date)

6. First and last page numbers of article cited (not preceded by ‘pp.’)

7. Page number of page cited (in parentheses, preceded by 'p.' or 'pp.')

All elements should be succeeded by a comma except when immediately preceding a parenthesis, and all footnotes should end with a full stop.

 

Examples 

  1. Anna Neill, ‘Buccaneer Ethnography: Nature, Culture, and Nation in the Journals of William Dampier’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33 (2000), 165-80 (p. 172).
  2. Bruce Robbins, ‘The Sweatshop Sublime’, PMLA, 117 (2002), 84-97 (p.  95).
  3. Peter Conradi, 'Iris Murdoch and Wales', Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 75 (2005), 26-34 (pp. 27-32).
  4. Gillian Beer, 'The Making of a Cliché: "No Man is an Island"', European Journal of English Studies, 1 (1997), 33-47 (p. 36).
  5. Urmi Bhomik, 'Facts and Norms in the Marketplace of Print: John Dunton's Athenian Mercury', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 36 (2003), 345-67 (p. 366).

 

Note:

  • There is no need to specify which number or part of a volume you are referring to as the pages across all the numbers of a journal volume are continuous i.e. the Winter edition of PMLA 117, for example, will not start with p. 1.
  • Remember to include the page range without 'pp.' 
  • But do precede the specific page citation in parentheses with 'p.' or 'pp.'
  • As for chapters and book titles, remember to present article titles in single inverted commas and journal titles in italics.