how will i document (in MLA format) three articles from the same periodical?

Answer 1

The proper format for citing a periodical can be found at the Online Writing Lab at Perdue University.

The correct answer can vary depending on the type of periodical. So here are all of the basic formats. By the way if you follow the source I have given it will take you to the MLA main page of the OWL which can answer all of your MLA questions.

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Basic format:

Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent 5 Dec. 2000: 20.

When writing the date, list day before month; use a three-letter abbreviation of the month (e.g., Jan., Mar., Aug.). If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g., 17 May 1987, late ed.).

Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.

Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent 5 Dec. 2000: 20.

An Article in a Scholarly Journal
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages.

Actual example:

Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50.

If the journal uses continuous pagination throughout a particular volume, only volume and year are needed, e.g. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1998): 251-81. If each issue of the journal begins on page 1, however, you must also provide the issue number following the volume, e.g. Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 33-49.

Journal with Continuous Pagination
Allen, Emily. "Staging Identity: Frances Burney's Allegory of Genre." Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (1998): 433-51.

Journal with Non-Continuous Pagination
Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): 127-53.

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Answer 2

Follow the instructions for citing an article and go from there. Each will require its own citation and bibliographical entry. Be sore to alphabetize the entries in the bibliography. Good luck.

Chow!!

Answer 3

Title. Author. Publication, pub date. If you reference the author in the body of the essay rather than the periodical, it may read a little easier.

Answer 4

Page number is also generally required.