How to Cite the Online Databases MLA Style

Service EBSCO

Databases: Academic Search Complete, Alt-Health Watch, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Business Source Complete, Business Source Premier, Consumer Health Complete, Fuente Académica, Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, History Resource Center, Legal Collection, Literary Reference Center, MasterFile Premier, MasUltra-School Edition, Middle Search Plus, MedicLatina, Natural & Alternative Treatments, Newspaper Source, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection, Regional Business News, Religion & Philosophy Collection, Science & Technology Collection, Student Research Center, Texas Reference Center, Topic Search, Vocational and Career Collection, World History Collection

Journal Article

Vogels, Ton. "AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior: A Comparison of Dutch Students and Dropouts." 
    Adolescence 34.134 (Summer 1999): 369-380. Academic Search Complete. 
    Ebsco. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 2 April 2005 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.

Magazine Article (no author)

"Facts and Figures." Hispanic 20 June 1999: 17. Academic Search Complete. 
    Ebsco. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 2 April 2005 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.

Service: Gale

Databases: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Discovering Collection, Health and Wellness Resource Center, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, Expanded Academic ASAP, InfoTrac OneFile, Health Reference Center Academic, Literature Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, Student Resource Center GOLD

Magazine Article

Hernandez Colon, Rafael. "Doing Right by Puerto Rico: Congress Must Act." Foreign Affairs 
    August 1998:112-115. General OneFile. Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 
    7 April 2005 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Newspaper Article

Petro, Pamela J. "Puerto Rican Jaunt On a Java Theme." New York Times 11 Jan. 1998: 11. 
    InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 10 April 2005
     <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Article published by a Database

"Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan." Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: Word Leaders. 
    2003. Gale Group. Republished in Discovering Collection. Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library, 
    El Paso, TX. 15 March 2005 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Essay from Literature Resource Center

Mangione, Jerre. "Federal Writers' Project Writers' Program." The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writer's Project, 1935-1943.
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. Excerpted and reprinted in: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 46. 
    N.p.: Gale, 1986. 147-152. Republished in: Literature Resource Center. Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library,
    El Paso, TX. 22 March 2005 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Chapter in a book from Opposing Viewpoints

Easterbook, Gregg. "The Media Glamorize Violence." American Values. Ed. Jennifer A. Hurley. 
    Opposing Viewpoints. N.p.: Greenhaven, 2000. N. pag. Reproduced in Opposing Viewpoints. 
    Gale Group. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 5 April 2005 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Service: NewsBank

Databases: El Paso Times, The Texas Newspapers, New York Times, Acceda Noticias, Access Business News, Access International News, Access Military- Gov- Defense Newswires, Transcripts, The World NewsBank Academic Library Collection, NewsBank Retrospective, Americas News Magazines

Newspaper Article (no author)

"How One Teen Almost Got her Mother Deported." Christian Science Monitor 7 July 1998: 1. 
     NewsBank NewsFile. NewsBank. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 23 March 2005 
     <http://infoweb.newsbank.com>.

Service: CQ Press

Database: CQ Researcher

Magazine Article

Hosansky, David. "Food Safety." CQ Researcher 1 Nov. 2002: n. pag. CQ Researcher. 
     CQ Press. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 4 April 2005 <http://library.cqpress.com>.

Service: ProQuest

Databases: SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, ProQuest Nursing Journals, eLibrary

Newspaper Article

Olivera, Mercedes. "Dallas Bilingual Education to be in National Spotlight." The Dallas Morning News 
    21 Jan. 1999: 26A. e-Library Curriculum Edition. ProQuest. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 
    7 April 2005 <http://elibrary.bigchalk.com>.

Magazine Article

Munz, Rainer. "The Migrants." The Earth Times 15 Feb. 1996:9-15. SIRS Researcher. 
    ProQuest. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 22 March 2005 <http://sks.sirs.com>.

Journal Article

Krauss, J.K. "Deep Brain Stimulation for Cervical Dystonia." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 
     74.11 (November 2003): 1598. ProQuest Nursing Journals. ProQuest. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 
     2 April 2005 <http://proquest.umi.com>.

Service: BioOne

Database: BioOne

Journal Article (more than 3 authors)

Erickson, Amy A., et al. "Does Mangrove Leaf Chemistry Help Explain Crab Herbivory Patterns?" Biotropica.
    36.3 ( 11 March 2004): 333-343. BioOne. BioOne. E.P.C.C. Library, El Paso, TX. 7 April 2005 
    <http://www.bioone.org/bione/>.

Author Title of Article (in quotation marks)

Title of Source, underlined (magazine, journal, newspaper)

Date (if a journal, record first the vol. and issue, then the date in parenthesis)

Pages of Original (if available)

Name of Database (underlined)

Note: When using the online databases, the name of the database appears on our web page (www.epcc.edu/vvlib/vvonline.htm). The name of the database appears to the left (in blue), followed by the name of the service (in brackets)

Name of Service (this information is inside the brackets on the VV Library Homepage)

Name and Location of Library

Date of Access

URL of Database (see correct address on VV Library Web page; it appears under the title of the database)

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