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Citation rules/Periodicals/16.5 Nonconsecutively Paginated Journals and Magazines

Add the volume number

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

Where a periodical prints no date of issue, the issue number stands in the date's place and the volume number goes in front of the periodical's name.1

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  1. 1R. 16.5 Nonconsecutively Paginated Journals and Magazines. Tables: R. 16.4 Consecutively Paginated Journals.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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  1. Abbreviate the periodical's name
  2. Add “at” before the page
  3. Add the first page of the work
  4. Add the volume number
  5. Add the volume or remove the year
  6. Remove italics inside the article's title
  7. Remove italics outside the article's title
  8. Remove the volume or the cover date
  9. Use small caps for the periodical name

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More in Periodicals

  1. Abbreviate the periodical's name
  2. Add “at” before the page
  3. Add the first page of the work
  4. Add the volume number
  5. Add the volume or remove the year
  6. Remove italics inside the article's title
  7. Remove italics outside the article's title
  8. Remove the volume or the cover date
  9. Use small caps for the periodical name

Back to Periodicals

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