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Journals, Magazines & Newspapers

Law reviews, bar journals, magazines and newspapers, in print and online.

An article lives at an address: volume, journal and first page, under the authors and title that say what waits there. A newspaper has no volume, so the date carries the address and the page, or the link, opens the door. Below: the 1890 article on the right to privacy, and the front page that began the Pentagon Papers.

An article in a law review, pinpointed to one page

Samuel D. Warren & Louis D. Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193, 195 (1890).

1 authors as the byline prints them; & joins two
2 title, copied whole, in italics
3 volume
4 journal, in its Table E form
5 first page
6 pinpoint: the page you rely on
7 year printed on the issue

A newspaper story, cited to the printed page

Neil Sheehan, Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U. S. Involvement, N.Y. Times, June 13, 1971, at 1.

8 byline
9 headline of the version you read, spaced as printed
10 paper: drop The; shorten only the place
11 date of the issue
12 “at” and the page where the story starts