MLA Style
| "Needless to say, this edition's recommendations on citing electronic works are necessarily not definitive and will doubtless change as technology, scholarly uses of electronic materials, and electronic publication practices evolve." (MLA Handbook 179) |
See also: MLA format: Bedford St Martin Research and Documentation Online
Citing Full-Text Articles from Online Library Databases
This guide is based on rules from the MLA Handbook, fifth edition, 1999, with my further recommendations for problems not covered by this style guide. These examples are for students at University of South Alabama to use in their class research papers and therefore take into consideration ways to make it easier for instructors to track down the articles cited. My recommendations may not be appropriate for nationally published papers.
This guide only covers a few databases, but is a work in progress. If you find it of any value and encounter other problems, let me know what they are and I will try to give examples and alleviate the frustration both faculty and students have with these strange new formats. Jan Sauer
1.MLA Style for Gale/Infotrac databases from Gale/Infotrac Help Pages
2. Ebsco's Academic Search Elite citation for a magazine article:
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a. This is how to cite it using the Full Text view.
Motavalli, Jim. "Across the Great Divide." E Magazine: The Environmental Magazine Jan./Feb. 2002: 34+. Academic Search Elite. Ebsco. 19 Apr. 2002 <http://library.southalabama.edu>.
Note: MLA allows the plus sign to indicate unknown page numbers.
Note: Both the specific database and the database service are listed.
Note: The URL is for the library homepage. *b. This is how to cite it using the Full Page Image version.
Motavalli, Jim. "Across the Great Divide." E Magazine: The Environmental Magazine Jan./Feb. 2002: 34-39. Academic Search Elite. Ebsco. 19 Apr. 2002 <http://library.southalabama.edu>.
Note: The page numbers are known and included.
Note: Both the specific database and the database service are listed.
Note: The URL is for the library homepage. *
