Popular periodicals or magazines usually identify issues by date (rather than volumes), and begin each issue with page one, though some scholarly journals also include dates and paginate each issue separately. If you are in doubt as to whether a periodical is a popular periodical or a scholarly journal, check to see if the publication begins with page 1. In point of fact, however, the distinction between these two types of publications is largely a judgement call. Science, for instance, numbers issues consecutively throughout a volume, but it still considered by some to be a popular periodical or magazine.

If the article is not printed on consecutive pages (which is often the case in magazines), enter the first page on which the article is printed, and a plus sign:

See also additional examples of articles in magazines and popular periodicals:

Please note that all examples in this styleguide were generated from a single samples database using the predefined style formatting programs included with Citation bibliographic software.

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