How to cite the
online databases using the MLA style
- Let's start by getting
an article from the online databases.
- Select the Online Databases
link.
- Select General Interest.
- Select Academic OneFile.
- Type your search, for
example: body piercing AND teenagers.
- Click search.
- The tabs tell you what
kind of resources you have retrieved: journals, magazines, newspapers, multimedia.
- Scroll down until you
find an article of your liking. Click on your choice.
- The information you need
for your works cited page usually appears at the top of the article.
- Scroll down to see if
this article has references, notes or footnotes. That is an indication that
this is a scholarly article.
- In MLA, first you cite
the original (in this example, the journal article, in red); then you name
the database (in this example, Academic OneFile, in black.), the medium (Web),
and the date of access.
Citation elements in MLA:
- Author: last name,
first name.
- Title of article
in quotation marks.
- Title of journal
in italics.
- Volume and issue
number.
- Date, in parenthesis.
- Pages.
- Name of database,
in italics.
- Medium
- Date you accessed
the information.
Example of a complete citation:
Selekman, Janice. “A New Era of Body Decoration: What Are Kids Doing to Their
Bodies?" Pediatric Nursing 29.1(Jan-Feb 2008):77-80. Academic OneFile. Web. 10 June 2008.
Example of a citation of
a magazine article without an author:
"Tattoo, Bling Craze Raises Hiring Issues." USA Today April 2006:10. Academic
OneFile. Web. 10 June 2009.
Difference
between a magazine and a journal
Beware of the citations coming from the software of the database. They may contain
lots of mistakes.
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