In the paper, three basic properties of the logarithmically N-alternating monotonic functions are established and the monotonicity results of some functions involving the gamma and q-gamma functions, which are obtained in [W. E. Clark and M. E. H. Ismail, Inequalities involving gamma and psi functions, Anal. Appl. (Singap.) 1 (2003), no. 1, 129–140.], are generalized to the logarithmically N-alternating monotonicity.