Journal and magazine articles

Connect through to format examples which provide a review of each component that needs to be included in a reference.

Then move to the FURTHER EXAMPLES table with many examples of book and e-book format types. 

Basic format to reference an electronic journal article

[#]    Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of the electronic article,” Abbrev. Title of Journal, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month. Year. Accessed: Abbrev. Month. Day, Year. doi:xxxxx. [Online]. Available: site/path/file (database or URL) 

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the article in double quotation marks, in lower case
• Title of the Journal, in italics. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc. Refer to the Journal titles abbreviations section on this page for further information.
• Volume, issue and page number(s)
• Abbreviated month and year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information.
• Accessed: Month, Day, Year. Where there is a DOI available, the Access Date can be omitted.
• DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available. It is preferable to provide a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available.
  • If a DOI of the journal article is not available, provide the Victoria University database provider. Refer to DOI in IEEE section on this guide for further information.
• [Online]
• Available: site/path/file location of an article, which can be a library database provider or a full URL. 
  • For electronic resources found on the Internet include the full URL

Example:

[2]     A. Vaskuri, H. Baumgartner, P. Kärhä, G. Andor, and E. Ikonen, "Modeling the spectral shape of InGaAlP-based red light-emitting diodes," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 118, no. 20, pp. 203103-1–203103-7, Jul. 2015. Accessed: Feb. 9, 2017. doi: 10.1063/1.4936322. [Online]. Available: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4936322

Basic format to reference a print journal article

[#]    Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of the article,” Abbrev. Title of Journal, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month. Year, doi:xxxxx (if available).

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the article in double quotation marks, in lower case
• Title of the Journal, in italics. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc. Refer to the Journal titles abbreviations section on this page for further information.
• Volume, issue and page number(s)
• Abbreviated month and year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information
• DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available.

Example:

[1]     T. Kaczorek, "Minimum energy control of fractional positive electrical circuits," Archives of Electrical Engineering, vol. 65, no. 2, pp.191–201, Oct. 2016.

Basic format to reference an electronic magazine article

[#]    Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of the magazine article,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical (Magazine), vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month. Year. Accessed: Abbrev. Month. Day, Year. doi:xxxxx. [Online]. Available: site/path/file (database or URL) 

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the magazine article in double quotation marks, in lower case
• Title of the Periodical (Magazine), in italics. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc. Refer to the Journal titles abbreviations section on this page for further information.
• Volume, issue and page number(s)
• Abbreviated month and year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information.
• Accessed: Month, Day, Year. Where there is a DOI available, the Access Date can be omitted.
• DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available. It is preferable to provide a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if available.
  • If a DOI of the journal article is not available, provide the Victoria University database provider. Refer to DOI in IEEE section on this guide for further information.
• [Online]
• Available: site/path/file location of an electronic book, which can be a library database provider or a full URL. 
  • For electronic resources found on the Internet include the full URL

Example:

[4]     D. T. Hoang, D. Niyato, D. N. Nguyen, E. Dutkiewicz, P. Wang, and Z. Han, "A dynamic edge caching framework for mobile 5G networks," IEEE Wireless Communic., vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 95–103, Aug. 2018. Accessed: Nov. 26, 2021. doi: 10.1109/MWC.2018.1700360. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8443597

Basic format to reference a print magazine article

[#]    Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of the magazine article,” Abbrev. Title of Magazine (in italics), vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month, Year.

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the magazine article in double quotation marks, in lower case
• Title of the Magazine, in italics. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc.
• Volume, issue and page number(s)
• Abbreviated month and year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information.

Example:

[3]     M. Patrick, "The origins of today's industrial robots, and where they're headed next," Electronics World, vol. 124, no. 1987, pp.19–20, Oct. 2018.

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