LibGuides: Harvard Referencing Guide: Journal articles

Journal articles

AUTHOR(S) (Year) Title of article. Title of journal, Vol. no. (Part no./Issue/Month), Pages, use p. or pp.

e.g. MAIMON, D. and BROWNING, C. R. (2012) Adolescents’ violent victimization in the neighbourhood: situational and contextual determinants. British journal of criminology, 52 (4), pp. 808-833.

Journal articles ONLY available online

Note: Journal articles taken from the Internet or a database should be cited as print using the rules above. However if the article is only available online (for example there are no page numbers) reference as below.

AUTHOR(S) (date) Title of article. Title of journal. [Online] Vol. no. (Part no./Issue/Month). Available from: DOI or web address [Accessed date].

e.g. HEUS, T. and JONKER, H.J.J. (2008) Subsiding shells around shallow cumulous clouds. Journal of atmospheric sciences. [Online] 65 (3). Available from: doi:org/10.1175/2007Jas2322.1 [Accessed 28/06/16].

Journal articles not yet printed

Sometimes articles are published online in advance of publication in a specific journal issue. Use forthcoming instead of the date:

AUTHOR(S) (Forthcoming) Title of article. Title of journal. [Online] Available from: web address [Accessed date].

e.g. ROYALL, D.P., THIEL, B.L. and DONALD, A.M. (Forthcoming) Radiation damage of water in environmental scanning electron microscopy. Journal of microscopy. [Online] Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00948.x/full [Accessed 14/03/15].

Journal articles found in open-access repositories (e.g.DORA)

AUTHOR(S) (Year) Title of article. Title of journal [Post-print] Vol no. (Part no./Issue/Month), Pages, use p. or pp. Available from: web address [Accessed date].

e.g. PALIT, D. and BHATTACHARYYA, S.C. (2014) Adoption of cleaner cookstoves: barriers and way forward. Boiling Point [Post-print] (Issue 64), pp. 6-9. Available from: http://hdl.handle. net/2086/11599 [Accessed 17/03/16].