How to catalog my magazines and their articles?

I’m creating a site to catalogue some old magazines, which I envisage will have:

• A “magazine” custom post type (with custom fields for issue number and publication date)
• An “article” custom post type (with a custom field for the author)

But I’m not sure how to “relate” the articles to the magazines (and vice versa), in particular:

• How to “relate” a dozen articles to a specific issue of the magazine. Pages have an option to have a “parent”, but not posts. Will a custom field let me link to a “parent” that automatically is aware of its child posts? (Bidirectional relationship?)
• For each magazine issue post, how to display all its child articles (title and author)
• For each article, how to display the parent magazine issue to which it belongs, and the publication date?

I’m try to avoid templates, programming, and premium plugins, as the problem seems quite straightforward, similar to having a music catalogue of albums, tracks and composers.