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Databases offer material from different sources, but mainly from magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, reference sources and books.
If you want to cite an article from a reference source or an excerpt from a book use the following MLA (Modern Language Association of America) format:
Author’s name. “Title of the Article.” Original Source of the Article.
Editor’s name. Publisher information (city: publisher, date). Name of
Database Used. Name of the Service. AHS Library, Annandale, VA.
Date of access <URL of service’s homepage>.
If some information is not available, leave it out and go on to the next piece of information you can find.
Example: Johnson, Robert K. "Robert Frost." Discovering Authors. Detroit: Gale Group,
2003. Student Resource Center. Thomson Gale. AHS Library,
Annandale, VA. 16 May 2006 <http://galenet.galegroup.com>.
If you want to cite an article from a magazine, journal or newspaper use the following MLA format:
Author's name. "Title of the Article." Original Source of Article volume
and issue number (Date of original source): page numbers. Name of the
Database Used. Name of the Service. Name of Library or Library
System, City, State Abbreviation. Date of access <URL of service's
homepage>.
If some of the information is not available, leave it out and provide the next piece of information you can find.
Example: Alter, Jonathan. “The Danger of Distractions.” Newsweek 144.12 (20
Sept. 2005):29. eLibrary. ProQuest Information & Learning. AHS
Library, Annandale, VA. 17 May 2005 <http://elibrary.bigchalk.com>.