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HOW TO CITE A FULL TEXT JOURNAL ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE

APA
EBSCOhost's suggested APA bibliographic style for citing an article from an EBSCOhost database:

Author. (Year). Article title. Journal Name , volume(issue), paging. Retrieved Access date, from Database supplier/Database product name.

Voelker, R. (2004). Stress, Sleep Loss, and Substance Abuse Create Potent Recipe for College Depression. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 291, 2177-2179. Retrieved May 24, 2004, from Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition database.

InfoTrac uses the following APA example to cite articles from their databases:

Gremillion, Kristen J. (1996). Early agricultural diet in North America: evidence from two Kentucky rockshelters. American Antiquity, 61(3), 520. Retrieved March 17, 2002, from InfoTrac Web Expanded Academic ASAP. A19027669.


The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, fifth edition, section 4.15 states, "If information is retrieved from an aggregated database, providing the name of the database is sufficient; no address is needed."

For more information on electronic reference formats recommended by APA, see APA Style.org Electronic References, also http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html (bottom of page example 88). Information from APA, on how to cite other electronic references, such as urls, are currently (Oct. 2005) at http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html. APA frequently changes the help/sample pages; if the page is missing go to www.apa.org and browse.


MLA
Author. "Article Title." Journal Name. Volume.Issue. (Date): paging. Database Product Name. Database supplier. Library name, City, State. Access date <short url for Database site>.

Phillips, Charles. "Detecting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Role of Counselors." American History 39.1 (2004): 16-20. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Drain-Jordan Library, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV. 24 May 2004 <http://web29.epnet.com>.

(The name of the article in the example above was changed. The English 102 example below includes the article number - AN.)

The English 102 example for MLA citation format for Journals from Databases (given out Fall 2005) is:

Saunders, Kurt M., and Bruce Zucker. "Counteracting Identity Fraud in the Information Age: The Identity Theft and Assumpton Deterrence Act." International Review Of Law, Computer & Technology 13.2 (August 1999). EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier. AN 13600869. Drain-Jordan Library, WV State University, Institute, WV. 28 September 2005 <http://search.epnet.com>.

For articles from InfoTrac, use <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.
note: EBSCOhost and Infotrac sometimes change their servers (the first part of the url after the slashes), you may need to modify the example url.

Answers from MLA's site: