Online journal article

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Format for in-text citation

In-text citation example

Gorman (2008) argues that…

OR

…was argued (Gorman 2008).


Format for reference list

Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

Author (Year of publication), 'Title of article', Name of Publication, Volume(Issue):Page numbers, doi:number OR url

Reference list example

Article with page numbers:

Gorman GE (2008), 'The plague of plagiarism in an online world', Online Information Review, 32(4):297-301.  https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520810889637

Article without page numbers:

Padilla T (2016), 'Humanities data in the library: integrity, form, access', D-Lib Magazine,  22(3/4). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march16/padilla/03padilla.html


Style notes for this reference type

Please note that the style manual used to create this guide to Harvard, The Australian Government Style Manual, does not provide specific advice on citing online journal articles. These guidelines are based on the general advice on citing online sources.

You should cite an electronic journal article in the same way as a printed journal article, with the addition of the following in the entry in the reference list:

If there are no page numbers, these can be omitted.


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