Academic quarterly journals are paginated continuously through all four issues as if they were one volume, which, when bound, they are. Therefore it is unnecessary to put the month of issue or the issue number (1-4). Simply write vol.# (year): pages, as in the following example:

Zarefsky, David, and Victoria J. Gallagher. "From ‘Conflict’ to ‘Constitutional Question’: Transformations in Early American Public Discourse." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (1990): 247-261.

Magazines often have volume and issue numbers, but they are not paginated continuously; the next month, they start over on page one. Therefore, the relevant information is the month and day of issue, not the volume number. Notice that in each of the following examples the pagination is handled slightly differently depending on the situation. In the first example, a weekly magazine, the article occurs in a continuously paged sequence. In the second example, a newspaper, the article begins on page one and is continued on separated pages in the newspaper.

Chace, James. "Answering ‘the German Question’: Has the Unthinkable Become the Inevitable?" New Republic 11 Dec. 1989: 19-23.

Wines, Michael. "Battle over World View." New York Times 3 Oct. 1991: A1+.