Journal articles. Information in the reference list

Printed

  • Name of author(s) or editor(s).  (If more than three authors you may write et al. after the third author depending on the citation style you use). Author may be an organization. If no author, you may use the title as first entry.
  • Publication year
  • Article title
  • Journal title
  • Volume, issue
  • Pages

Online

  • Name of author(s) or editor(s).  (If more than three authors you may write et al. after the third author depending on the citation style you use). Author may be an organization. If no author, you may use the title as first entry.
  • Publication year
  • Article title
  • Journal title
  • Volume, issue if available; otherwise day and month
  • [Online]
  • Available at: URL or DOI
  • (Accessed: date)
  • Pages if available

 

In-text citation printed and online

Hjørland (2012, p. 266) concludes that "Good, scholarly reading is to be aware of different perspectives, and to situate oneself among them".

Amber admits in the article: Had I been studying in 2012, I would have been far more likely to encounter articles online, either through searching within library holdings and/or finding open access versions online" (Amber, 2012).

The literature list

Amber, T. (2012) '21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia', Ariadne, issue 70, November [Online]. Available at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/thomas. (Accessed 06-06-2013).

Hjørland, B.(2012). 'Methods for evaluating information sources: an annotated catalogue', Journal of Information Science, 38(3), pp. 258-268.