Where to Find the Volume of an Article

This is the information that is typically needed in order to correctly cite the different types of sources regardless of citation style being used.

There are also tips provided to assist with deciphering citation information so that you can figure out the information source (newspaper, book, journal etc.) being cited. Reviewing the references of an article, chapter or book being used often can help you locate useful information sources that are directly or adjacently related to the topic you are researching.

Book

Levitt Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. New York : William Morrow, 2005.

Title	Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Author(s)	Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Place of publication	New York
Publisher	William Morrow
Copyright/Publication date	2005

Clues that this is a book:

• Contains only one title: Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
• Includes a place of publication: New York
• Includes the name of a publishing company: William Morrow
• Might or might not include page numbers.

To find a specific book, you can search the Library Catalog by author or title.

Journal Article (print)

Empirical assessment of expertise . Weiss, David J.; Shanteau, James ; Human Factors , Vol 45(1), Spr, 2003. pp. 104-116.

Article Title	Empirical assessment of expertise.
Author(s)	Weiss, David J.; Shanteau, James
Journal Title (title of the journal or magazine in which the article appears)	Human Factors
Journal volume and issue	Volume 45 Issue 1
Date of the Article	Spring 2003
Page numbers for the article	104-116

Clues that this is a print article:

• Contains the title of the article, sometimes in quotation marks: " Empirical assessment of expertise "
• Contains another title, the title of the journal, newspaper, or magazine in which the article appears, often underlined or in italics: Human Factors
• Contains a volume and, sometimes, an issue number: 45. 1, or sometimes 45(1)
• The date is sometimes a year, sometimes month and year, sometimes season (example: Spring) and year.

If you have a citation to a specific article that you are interested in finding, you can search the Library Catalog or the Electronic Journals List for the title of the journal.

Conference Paper

Computational intelligence techniques for a smart electric grid of the future
Zhenhua Jiang. Advances in Neural Networks. Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2009, p 1191-1201, 2009

Paper Title	Computational Intelligence Techniques for a Smart Electric Grid of the Future
Author	Zhenhua Jiang
Conference Title	Advances in Neural Networks: Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks
Date	2009
Page Numbers	1191-1201

Clues that this is a conference paper:

• Title includes words "Proceedings" or "Symposium" or "Conference" or "Congress" or "Workshop"
• Date is a year

To find a specific conference proceeding (the proceeding is the collection of all the papers presented at the conference) search the Library Catalog for the name of the conference.

Newspaper article

Bick, Julie. "The Long (and Sometimes Expensive) Road to the SAT." New York Times 28 May 2006, Section 3 p6.

Article Title	The Long (and Sometimes Expensive) Road to the SAT
Author(s)	Julie Bick
Newspaper title	New York Times
Date	May 28, 2006
Page	6
Edition or Section	3

Clues that this is a newspaper article:

• Like journal articles, it contains the title of the article (often in quotation marks) and the title of the publication
• Unlike journal articles, the date includes the month and day in addition to the year
• Some include section numbers: Section 3
• Some include section numbers as part of the page numbers (e.g. A6, B4)

If you have a citation to a specific newspaper article that you are interested in finding, you can search the Library Catalog or the Electronic Journals List for the title of the journal.

Article (online)

Household Horror: Domestic Masculinity in Poe 's 'The Black Cat' By: Bliss, Ann V. ; Explicator, 2009 Winter; 67 (2): 96-99.

Article Title	Household Horror: Domestic Masculinity in Poe 's 'The Black Cat'
Author(s)	Bliss, Ann V.
Journal Title	Explicator
Journal volume and issue	Volume 67 Issue 2
Page numbers for the article	96-99
Database where you found the full-text of the article	MLA Bibliography
Database platform	EBSCO Host
Database provider (library or other group which provided access to the database)	Georgia Tech Library
Web address of the database	http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/

Clues that this is an online article:

• Includes the elements of an article citation, such as two titles, volume/issue numbers, and page numbers
• Includes the name of the article database in which the article was found: MLA Bibligraphy
• Contains a URL to the article database in which the article was found: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/
• Includes a date of access

Like print articles, you can search the Library Catalog or the Electronic Journals List for the title of the journal, newspaper, or magazine to see if we have access to the publication here at the library.

Web Page

(all of the elements might not be available for each web page)

NationMaster,   http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php.  2009.  Accessed November 19, 2009.

Author	no author listed
Title of web page	NationMaster
Web address	http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
Web site host or publisher	NationMaster.com
Date of copyright or date page was updated	2009
Date you accessed the page	November 19, 2009

Clues that this is a web page:

• Often does not have individual authors
• Includes a URL to the site.
• Does not include the name of a library or library database
• Includes a date of access.

Thanks to Utah State for the permission to use and modify the "Elements of a Citation" and "Why You Should Cite Your Sources" material.

Where to Find the Volume of an Article

Source: https://libguides.gatech.edu/c.php?g=53980&p=348445

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