MLA Citation Guide (MLA 9th Edition): Magazine Articles

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, vol. Volume Number if given, no. Issue Number if given, Day Month Year of Publication, URL.

Note: If you are citing an opinion or editorial piece, add the following at the end of your citation: Op-ed.

Examples:

One Author

Waite, Kevin. “The Bloody History of Anti-Asian Violence in the West.” National Geographic, 10 May 2021, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-bloody-history-of-anti-asian-violence-in-the-west.

Two Authors

Seif, Martin, and Sally Winston. "Chronic Indecisiveness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place." Psychology Today, 9 May 2021, www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/living-sticky-mind/202105/chronic-indecisiveness-between-rock-and-hard-place.

Three or more authors

Smith, Marie-Danielle, et al. "The Rise and Fall of WE." Maclean's, 9 Sept. 2020, www.macleans.ca/longforms/we-charity-kielburgers-scandal/.

No Author

"The Digital Currencies That Matter." The Economist, 8 May 2021, www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/08/the-digital-currencies-that-matter.

(Last Name) or if there's no author ("Title of Article")

Examples: 

(Waite)

(Seif and Winston)

(Smith et al.)

("The Digital Currencies")

Note: If the source has a long title, you may shorten it in your in-text citation by using the first word/phrase from the title.

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine, vol. Volume Number if given, no. Issue Number if given, Day Month Year of Publication, pp. Page Numbers.

Note: If you are citing an opinion or editorial piece, add the following at the end of your citation: Op-ed.

Note: If the article pages are not in consecutive order, list the first page number of the article followed by a plus (+) sign.

Example:

Mull, Amanda. “Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover” The Atlantic, Oct. 2020, pp. 30-2.

(Last Name Page Number)

Example: (Mull 31)