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How to Cite the Online Databases

Note: These are examples of commonly cited entries. Citations vary depending on the information available. If you have questions, please ask a librarian for assistance.

EBSCO

(Academic Search Premier, Alt-Health Watch, Business Source Premier, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Reference Systems, Computer Source, Health Source Plus, MAS Full Text Ultra, MasterFile Premier, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Religion and Philosophy, Regional Business News, Sociological Collection, Topic Search)

Journal Article

Vogels, Ton. "Aids-Related Knowledge,Attitudes and Behavior: A Comparison of Dutch Students and Dropouts." 
	Adolescence34.134 (Summer 1999): 369-380. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. TexShare. 
	E.P.C.C. Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 2 Oct. 1999 <http:// search.epnet.com/login>.

Magazine Article (no author)

"Facts and Figures." HispanicJune 1999: 17. Academic Search Premier. 
	EBSCOhost. TexShare. E.P.C.C. Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 2 Oct. 1999 <http://search.epnet.com/login.asp>.

Gale

(Business & Company Resource Center, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Discovering Biography, Discovering Collection, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Informe, Infotrac Custom Newspapers, InfoTrac OneFile, Infotrac Health Reference Center, Infotrac OneFile, Literature Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, Scribner Writers Series, Student Resource Center GOLD, Twayne's Author Series)

Magazine Article

Geraci, Ron. "The Sedating Game." Men's Health March 1999: 52. Infotrac Health 
	Reference Center-Academic.TexShare. E.P.C.C. Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 2 Oct. 1999 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/>.

Newspaper Article

Petro, Pamela J. "Puerto Rican Jaunt On a Java Theme" New York Times 11 Jan. 1998: 11. 
	Infotrac Custom Newspapers. Gale Group. TexShare. E.P.C.C. Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 12 
	Jan. 2000 <http:// infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/>.

Article published by a Database

 "Cuban Migration to the U.S. in the 1960's and 1970's." Discovering Multicultural America. 
	2001. Gale Group. TexShare. EPCC Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 15 Oct. 1999. 
	<http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/>.

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. Detroit: Gale, 1986. 147-152. Republished in: Literature Resource Center. 
	Gale Group. TexShare. EPCC Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 2 July 2001. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/>.

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 Resource Center. Gale Group. 
	TexShare. EPCC Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 5 Sept. 2002 <http:// infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/>.

SIRS Knowledge Source

(SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance)

Magazine Article

Munz, Rainer. "The Migrants." The Earth Times 15 Feb. 1996: 9-15. SIRS Researcher.
	SIRS Mandarin. E.P.C.C. Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 2 Oct. 1999 <http://sks.sirs.com>.

NewsBank

(El Paso Times, NewsBank, Texas-NewsFile)

Newspaper Article

"How One Teen Almost Got her Mother Deported." Christian Science Monitor 7 July 1998: 1. 
	NewsBank NewsFile. NewsBank. E.P.C.C. Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 2 Oct. 1999 
	<http://infoweb.newsbank.com>.

CQ Researcher

Magazine Article

Hosansky, David. "Food Safety." CQ Researcher 1 Nov. 2002:n.pag. CQ Researcher. 
	CQ Press. EPCC Valle Verde Library, El Paso. 4 Nov. 2002 <http:// cqpress.com/cqresearcher>.

To Cite Online Databases:

Author.
Title of Article in quotation marks.
Title of Source, underlined (magazine, journal, newspaper).
Date (if a journal, record first the volume and issue, then the date in parenthesis).
Pagination of original (if available).
Name of Database, underlined.
Name of Service,Vendor or Publisher and Name of Distributor.
Name and location of Library.
Date of Access.
URL

Note: When using the online databases, the name of the database appears on our page first (in blue), followed by the name of the distributor (in brackets).

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