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Citation rules/Periodicals/16.5 Nonconsecutively Paginated Journals and Magazines

Remove the volume or the cover date

Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A periodical citation cites a work by volume and first page, or by its cover date, but never both; a volume standing beside a cover date mixes the two accepted forms.1

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  1. 1R. 16.5 Nonconsecutively Paginated Journals and Magazines; R. 16.4 Consecutively Paginated Journals; B16.1.1 Consecutively Paginated Journals. Tables: B16.1.2 Nonconsecutively Paginated Journals and Magazines.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not 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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