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From a full text database:
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Article Author, A. A., and B. B. Article Author. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume, no. issue number (Month or Season (if given) Year): inclusive page or paragraph numbers. https://doi.org/10.XXX/XXXXX.XX. |
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Article Author, A. A., and B. B. Article Author. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume, no. issue number (Month or Season (if given) Year):inclusive page or paragraph numbers. https://doi.org/10.XXXX/XXXXX.XX. |
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Article Author, A. A., and B. B. Article Author. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume, no. issue number (Month or Season (if given) Year): inclusive page or paragraph numbers. Internet address. |
Print journal:
Article Author, A. A., and B. B. Article Author. "Title of Article: Subtitle of Article." Title of Journal volume, no. issue number (Month or Season (if given) Year): inclusive page numbers. |
Journal article from a full text database
Author full first name provided
Buchanan, Jason. "Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism." Modern Fiction Studies 55, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 857+. ProQuest.
Hampton, Mark. "The Press, Patriotism, and Public Discussion: C. P. Scott, the Manchester Guardian, and the Boer War, 1899–1902." The Historical Journal 44, no. 1 (March 2001): 177-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X01001479.
Nicholson, Helen. "Women on the Third Crusade." Journal of Medieval History 23, no. 4, (1997): 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4181(97)00013-4.
Journal article from the Internet
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Jotischy, Andrew. "The Christians of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre and the Origins of the First Crusade." Crusades 7 (October 2008): 35-57. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/19762/1/proofs_Crusades_7_03_Jotischky.pdf.
Powell, James M. "The Crusades in Recent Research." The Catholic Historical Review 95, no. 2 (April 2009): 313-319. https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.0.0412.
Journal article in print: Regardless of pagination
Author full first name provided
Hallin, Daniel C. "Sound Bite News: Television Coverage of Elections, 1968-1988." Journal of Communication 42, no. 2 (June 1992): 5-24.
Jones, Henry
. "Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth." International Journal of Ethics 16, no. 1 (October 1905): 99-105.Yeh, Michelle. "The 'Cult of Poetry' in Contemporary China." Journal of Asian Studies 55, no. 1 (February 1996): 51-80.
Journal article in print: Issue with no volume
Author first names' initials only provided
Beattie, J. M. "The Pattern of Crime in England, 1660-1800." Past and Present, no. 62 (February 1974): 47-95.