 This video explains how to include scholarly journal articles in your work-cited list according to the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook. I'll show you how to cite online and print journal articles that have a volume and issue number. For other types of articles, check out our video, MLA Style Work-Cited List, Citing Newspapers and Magazines. Here, punctuation is in red for emphasis. In your actual work-cited list, all font would be black. Start with the author's last name, followed by their first name. Next, enter the title of the article in quotation marks, followed by the name of the journal in italics. Then, enter the volume number and issue number, separated by a period. Enter the year in brackets, followed by a colon, a space, and the page numbers of the article. If you access the article through the library in one of our article indexes, such as Academic Search Premier, JSTOR, Art Index, or MLA International Bibliography, for example, then you would enter it here in italics. Sometimes, you may be using an article you found in an open access journal, available for free on the internet. If you didn't access it through an article index, simply skip that step. And enter the medium of publication after the page numbers. Medium refers to the format. Web is how MLA refers to any online source or website. Finally, indicate the date you accessed the online article. Here are two completed examples. Notice you don't include the words volume or issue, just the numbers. The same goes for page numbers. Also notice you don't include a URL or web address for online journal articles, unless your instructor specifically requests you include them. Finally, note how the date of access is formatted. Day, abbreviated month, and year. See page 235 of the MLA Handbook for abbreviations of all 12 months. If you used a traditional print journal, it's even simpler to cite. But keep in mind, if you accessed the article online and printed a copy, that's not considered a print journal. Here's an example of a print journal citation. You don't need to include article index name or date of access, and the medium is print not web. But where do you find all that information? Everything you need is usually right there in the article, whether it's a print journal or an online PDF. You can easily find the article title and author. On each page, as either a header or a footer, is the journal name, volume, date, and often the page range. Thanks for watching. For articles with more than one author, watch our video, How to Site Multiple Authors in MLA Style. For more information about MLA, visit the Munn Libraries webpage for our MLA guide and to chat live with library staff.