include the following information :
- Author's or editor's last name, first name (if known)
- "Title of Document." in quotes
- Title of Complete Website. (if relevant) in italics
or underlined
- Document date or date of last revision (if known): dd Mo.
yyyy.
- Publishing/sponsoring organization (if available)
- Date site was accessed
- < URL > in angle brackets
If complete information is available:
Last_name,
First_name. "Title of Page." Name of Website.
dd Mo. yyyy. Name of institution/organization affiliated with
site. dd Mo. yyyy <http://address .of.site.com>.
If little information is available:
"Title
of Page." dd Mo. yyyy <http://address .of.site.com>.
(e.g., Lexis-Nexis, WilsonSelectPlus, JSTOR), using MLA style:
Full-text databases reproduce articles that originally appeared
in print elsewhere. To cite such articles, include the following:
- Author's last name, first name and any initials
- "Title of the Article" in quotation marks, capitalize
each important word
- Title of Journal/Publication in which the article
originally appeared, in italics or underlined, capitalize
each important word
- Volume and number for a journal, but not for a magazine
or newspaper
- Page number(s) of original article
- Date of article (if known), abbreviate any month (if magazine)
over 4 letters long, use parentheses for journals but not
for magazines.
- Name of database (i.e. Academic Universe), in italics or
underlined, followed by the name of the subscription service
(i.e. Lexis-Nexis), not italicized or underlined
- Date accessed, abbreviate any month over 4 letters long.
- URL, in angle brackets
An article from a journal, paginated by issue, volume 3, issue 12:
Author's_last_name,
First_name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal.
3.12 (yyyy). Name of Database. Name of Service Provider.
dd Mo. yyyy <http:// address.of.service.com>.
- When citing an article from a full-text database, use the
URL for the database's home page, not the URL for the exact
article.
- Use standard abbreviations for months and organizations.
- For in-text citations, use only fixed page numbers from a
PDF; do not cite page numbers of an HTML printout.
If paragraphs are numbered, use the abbreviation "Pars."
for MLA format.
More detailed examples of in-text citations:
Purdue University's Owl Online Writing Lab
The In-Text Citations page of the online The Everyday Writer.
Duke University
Generally MLA style includes the name of the library
and its location when citing articles from electronic subscription
services, such as EBSCO or LEXIS-NEXIS.
Since it is here assumed the
database was located at Lake Forest College, do not include that
information unless referencing a journal found in a database
at another institution, and not available at Lake Forest College.
Example of a newspaper article from a database accessed while visiting
Sacramento, CA:
Arkatov, Janice.
"The Gospel According to the Globe." Los Angeles
Times. 27 Dec. 1987: 58. Los Angeles Times database. ProQuest.
American River College Lib., Sacramento, CA. 21 Oct. 2003 <http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=341>.
MLA style guides in the Library:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers
of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York:
Modern Language Association, 2003.
Available at the Library Reference Desk (Rdy.Ref. LB 2369.G53
2003)
Hacker, Diana. A
Pocket Manual of Style. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2000.
Available at the Library Reference Desk (Rdy.Ref. PE 1408.H26
2000)
